SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, vol. 26

Contents

INTRODUCTION:
READING AND RE-READING: SHAW POST-150 YEARS
Heidi J. Holder and MaryAnn K . Crawford

1. BEARING WITNESS: HEARTBREAK
HOUSE AND THE POETICS OF TRAUMA
Desmond Harding
2. THE TALKING CURE
Jean Reynolds
3. PRE-OEDIPAL SHAW: "IT'S
ALWAYS THE MOTHER"
Lagretta Tallent Lenker
4. WHAT RUNS (IN) THE FAMILY:
ITERATED RETELLING, GENDER, AND GENRE
IN YOU NEVER CAN TELL AND MAJOR BARBARA
Dorothy A. Hadfield
5. THE UNGENDERED WILL AND
THE SHAVIAN SUPERMAN
Monica A Zabrouski and Robert P. Kirschmann
6. DOING PROPER THINGS FOR IMPROPER REASONS:
SPIRITUAL AMBIVALENCE IN MAJOR BARBARA
Frank Manista
7. LATE CAPITALISM AND THE UNITED STATES
IN THE APPLE CART
C. Brook Miller
8. SHAW'S EPIC THEATER
Lisa A. Wilde
9. SHAW REINTERPRETED
Nicholas Williams
10. SHAW'S EVERYDAY EMERGENCY. COMMODIFICATION
AND JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND
Brad Kent
11. COLONIALISM, POSTCOLONIALISM, AND THE
SHADOW OF A NEW EMPIRE:
JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND
Kathleen Ochshorn
12. COLONIAL LOCATIONS OF CONTESTED
SPACE AND JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND
Peter Gahan


REVIEWS
"Stump and Inkpot" (Bernard Shaw: A Life by A. M. Gibbs)
Stanley Weintraub
An Inestimable Debt (The British Library Catalogue of George
Bernard Shaw Papers edited by Anne Summers)
Michel W. Pharand
Shaw's Unwomanly Heroines (My Fair Ladies:
Untamed Heroines in the Plays of Bernard Shaw
by Mariko Oe)
Hisashi Morikawa
Mrs Warren in Context (Mrs Warren's Profession by
Bernard Shaw, edited by L. W. Conolly)
Lagretta Tallent Lenker-
Shaw the Erstwhile Novelist (Bernard Shaw's Novels:
His Drama of Ideas in Embryo by Rosalie Rahal Haddad)
Hannes Schweiger
News for Theatergoers (Shaw and His Contemporaries:
Theatre Essays by Ronald Bryden, edited by Dennis Johnston)
Heidi J. Holder

A CONTINUING CHECKLIST OF SHAVIANA
John R. Pfeiffer
CONTRIBUTORS
NOTICES
INTERNATIONAL SHAW SOCIETY NEWS