SHAW

The author of more than sixty plays, George Bernard Shaw remains one of the best-known and most prolific Irish playwrights of the twentieth century. Known for his ability to blend social issues into his dramas, Shaw won both a Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar (for Pygmalion).

SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies is the official publication of the International Shaw Society, which seeks to “provide a means for those interested in the life, times, works, and career of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and his circle to organize their activities and interests, exchange information and ideas, and promote an interest in Shaw worldwide.”

Editor
Christopher Wixson, Eastern Illinois University, US

Associate Editor
Brigitte Bogar, York University, US

Bibliographer
Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín, Universidad de Extremadura

Editorial Board
Jennifer Buckley, University of Iowa, US
Leonard Conolly, Trent University, US
Richard F. Dietrich, University of South Florida, US
Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College, US
Bernard Dukore, Virginia Tech, US
Peter Gahan, Film Editor, Los Angeles, US
Bob A. Gaines, Auburn University at Montgomery, US
Anthony Matthews Gibbs, Macquarie University, AU
Nicholas Grene, Trinity College, Dublin, IR
Dorothy A. Hadfield, University of Waterloo, CA
Brad Kent, Université Laval, CA
Lagretta Tallent Lenker, University of South Florida, US
Audrey McNamara, University College, Dublin, IR
Michael O'Hara, Ball State University, US
Sally Peters, Wesleyan University, US
John R. Pfeiffer, Central Michigan University, US
Michel W. Pharand, Queen's University, CA
Jean Reynolds, Polk State College, US
Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, US
E. Ann Saddlemyer, University of Toronto, CA
Julie Sparks, San Jose State University, US
Tony Stafford, University of Texas, El Paso, US
Lawrence Switzky, University of Toronto, CA
J. P. Wearing, University of Arizona, US

To submit an article to SHAW, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/shaw and create an author profile. The online system will guide you through the steps to upload your article for submission to the editorial office.

SHAW is currently accepting submissions for the following issues:

SHAW 43.2 (December 2023) and SHAW 44.2 (December 2024) will include articles on general topics. For inquiries about those issues or other information about SHAW, contact Christopher Wixson at .

SHAW 44.1 (June 2024): VICTORIAN SHAW
The Victorian era, usually defined as the period between 1837 and 1901, has been variously characterized as a time of breakneck scientific progress and rigid tradition, of widening democracy and insular hierarchy, of imperial expansion and the cult of domesticity. Bernard Shaw’s relationship with the era has been similarly argued over. Born twenty years into Queen Victoria’s reign and remaining active and prolific nearly half a century beyond its end, he has been described both as a product of Victorianism and as a rebel against it, an irrepressible herald of the Modern period. Howard Mumford Jones, a few years after Shaw’s death, called him an exemplar of “the energy, the fecundity, the curiosity of the great Victorians”; yet Stanley Kauffmann, a few decades later, would declare of Shaw’s nineteenth-century contemporaries that “their energy seems concentric, whirling in a closed circle around their lives and era,” while with Shaw, “the energy seems to whirl forward, to burst continually into a succession of futures.” Taking these varying judgments as a point of departure, SHAW 44.1 will focus on the theme of “Victorian Shaw.” This special issue welcomes articles that analyze Shaw’s connections or responses to particular people, events, texts, artistic works, or movements of the Victorian period, as well as articles that more broadly assess Shaw’s role in the field of Victorian Studies. Please submit essays by 1 May 2023. Inquiries and proposals should be directed to guest editor Mary Christian at .

SHAW 45.1 (June 2025): SHAW AND THE NEW MODERNIST STUDIES
In the now well-established terrain of the “new modernist studies,” we have become accustomed to revisionist and expansionist projects that open the field both theoretically and empirically to challenge earlier assumptions regarding the teleology of Modernism’s inner integrity, established practitioners, aesthetic practices, period boundaries, and principal geographical and social locations. Moreover, the study of modernism’s multiple and shifting locations beyond a traditional European-American axis is part of an ongoing process of revisionism that takes its cue from an analysis of the uneven experience of modernity viewed in both globalizing and transnational terms. The aim of SHAW 45.1 (June 2025) is to take the measure of Shaw’s place in relation to contested notions of literary modernism as the substantial expansion of its temporal and geographical scope reforms our understanding of the limits and limitations of Modernism, including its very meaning. Dismissed at times by peers and critics alike as a belated Victorian whose “drama of ideas” lingers on the borders of formal experimentation and style, a more nuanced account of Shaw’s voluminous writings—the plays, novels, prefaces, postscripts, proposals, reviews, pamphlets, broadsides, tracts, editorials, treatises, manifestoes, reports, and letters (private and public)—confirm his multifaceted importance as a modernist author whose work constitutes a series of unfolding relations with society and culture in both national and transnational settings. Inquiries and manuscript submissions are welcomed and should be sent to guest editor Dr. Desmond Harding at either hardi1d@cmich.edu or Department of English Language and Literature, Central Michigan University, Anspach 301F, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859.

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