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SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 23

Edited by Gale Larson and and MaryAnn K. Crawford

224 pages | 6 x 9 | 2003

ISBN 978-0-271-02331-1 | cloth: $57.95

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Shaw, now in its twenty-third year, publishes general articles on Shaw and his milieu, reviews, notes, and the authoritative Continuing Checklist of Shaviana, the bibliography of Shaw studies.


Gale K. Larson is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge.

MaryAnn K. Crawford is Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University.


Contents

General Introduction: Shaw's Brave New World Conference,
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 19-21 April 2001, Gale
K. Larson


Back to Methuselah: A "Grand Precurser" [sic] to
Finnegans Wake, Martha Black


Hostages of Heartbreak: The Women in Heartbreak
House, Valerie Murrenus


The Achievements of Shaw's Later Plays, 1929-1939,
Peter Gahan


Utopian Apocalypses: Shaw, War, and H. G. Wells,
Christopher Innes


Colossal Genius: The Chesterton-Shaw Debates, Daniel
H. Strait


Is the Holy Ghost a Scientific Fact? Why Shaw's
Creative Evolution Might Become the Scientific Religion of the 21st
Century, Stuart Baker


All About Eve: Testing the Miltonic Formula, Rhoda
Nathan


GBS and the BBC: In the Beginning (1923-28), Leonard
Conolly


The Gulf of Dislike: Truth and the Postmodern Condition
in Shaw's The Black Girl in Search of God, Frank C. Manista


Outwitting Destiny: The Artist as Superman, Sally
Peters


The Playwright and the Prizefighter: The Remarkable
Relationship Between Bernard Shaw and Gene Tunney, Jay Tunney


A Fabian Socialist in Socialist China, Wendi
Chen


GBS in Hellas: A Resource for Classicists, Sidney
P. Albert