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

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