Overview
- Offers unique insight into Shaw’s Irish background and how he engages with Ireland, politically and socially
- Aligns the drive for female suffrage with the efforts of Nationalist Ireland to achieve independence
- Examines Shaw’s use of the marriage trope to interrogate notions of identity, union, disunion and ownership
Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advocated for societal changes with regard to women’s roles, while expanding this advocacy into considerations of Ireland. Shaw’s engagement with marriage and union as a personal contract with nationhood have never before been considered as a methodology with which to view his work. This book demonstrates that Shaw was deeply engaged with and committed to the Irish question and to social and gender issues.
Reviews
“This timely and ground-breaking study is centrally concerned with two topics that have attracted increased interest within Shaw Studies overthe past decade: Shaw’s views on marriage (currently being re-explored in light of recent feminist theory) and his relationship to Ireland (traditionally underexplored in favour of seeing him as, effectively, an “English” or at least “British” writer). McNamara makes insightful and original points about both of these concerns, and – even better still – she shows the relationship between them, thereby demonstrating how Shaw’s early preoccupation with marriage and the marriage question became the tool with which he interrogated the Irish question.” (David Clare, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bernard Shaw
Book Subtitle: Reimagining Women and Ireland, 1892–1914
Authors: Audrey McNamara
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32589-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32588-5Published: 20 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32591-5Due: 20 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32589-2Published: 19 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 168
Topics: Theatre History, History of Britain and Ireland, Theatre and Performance Studies, Social History