Bernard Shaw's fiction, material psychology, & affect : Shaw, Freud, Simmel / Stephen Watt.
2018
PR5367
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Title
Bernard Shaw's fiction, material psychology, & affect : Shaw, Freud, Simmel / Stephen Watt.
Author
Watt, Stephen, 1951- author.
ISBN
9783319715131 (electronic book)
3319715135 (electronic book)
9783319715124
3319715135 (electronic book)
9783319715124
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PR5367
Dewey Decimal Classification
822/.912
Summary
This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters. While this study focuses on the protagonists of the five novels Shaw wrote in the late 1870s and early 1880s, it also explores how materialism, feeling, and emotion are linked throughout his entire canon. At the same time, it demonstrates how Shaw’s conceptions of human subjectivity parallel those of two of his contemporaries, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel. In particular, this book explores how theories of so-called 'marginal economics' influence fin de siècle thought about human psychology and the sociology of the modern metropolis, particularly London.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 20, 2018).
Series
Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
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Print version: 9783319715124
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