Bernard Shaw

Reimagining Women and Ireland, 1892-1914
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-32591-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 246 g

Reihe: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McNamara, Audrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Women, Nation, Enablement, and the Irish Question.- 2. The Opposing Strata of Feminism: Widowers’ Houses and Mrs Warren’s Profession.- 3. The Marriage of Change: Candida & Getting Married.- 4. John Bull, Nora Reilly and the Garden City: A Match Made in Heaven.- 5. The Wild West Meets the West End.

Über Autor(innen)

Audrey McNamara lectures at University College Dublin, and is an adjunct lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She was guest co-editor for Shaw 36.1: Shaw and Money (2016) and co-editor for Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland (2020).