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This chapter continues the discussion of the five novels of Bernard Shaw, and focuses on his last two complete novels, Cashel Byron’s Profession and An Unsocial Socialist. Lydia Carew and Sidney Trefusis thrive as early interior authors who carry Shaw’s message of anti-censorship, the reformation of the novel, and social justice. The chapter closes with a look at Shaw’s growing aversion to the novel form.
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- 1.
Bernard Shaw. 1883. Cashel Byron’s Profession. Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw. London: Constable and Co, Ltd. 1931–32. (All subsequent references will be given in the text).
- 2.
A.M. Gibbs, Bernard Shaw: A Life (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005), 98.
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Gibbs, Bernard Shaw, 98. For more analysis on Shaw and boxing, see Sally Peters, “Shaw and the Seamy Side of the Ring,” SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, 16 (1996): 155–163; Stanley Weintraub. “Cetewayo: Shaw’s First Hero from History,” SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies. 19, (1999): 7–22; Supriya Chaudhuri, “Professional Sport and Shaw’s Cashel Byron.” The International Journal of the History of Sport, 28, 2111, 6: 941–55.
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See Sally Peters, “Shaw and the Seamy Side of the Ring,” Weintraub, “Cetewayo”; and Supriva Chaudhuri, “Professional Sports and Shaw’s Cashel Byron.”
- 5.
Archibald Henderson, “Shaw’s Novels: and Why They Failed.” Shaw Bulletin 1 (May, 1955), 14.
- 6.
Quoted in Michael Holroyd. Bernard Shaw. Vol.1 The Search for Love, 1856-1898, (London: Chatto and Windus, 1988), 115.
- 7.
R.F. Dietrich, Bernard Shaw’s Novels, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996), 134–35.
- 8.
See Peters. “Shaw and the Seamy Side of the Ring;” Weintraub “Cetewayo”; and Supriva Chaudhuri “Professional Sports and Shaw’s Cashel Byron.”
- 9.
Sally Peters. Ascent of the Superman (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), 84–85.
- 10.
Holroyd, The Search for Love, I, 114.
- 11.
Gibbs, Bernard Shaw, 98.
- 12.
Peters, Ascent of the Superman, 81.
- 13.
Stanley Weintraub, “The Embryo Playwright in Bernard Shaw’s Early Novels.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 1.3, 341.
- 14.
Bernard Shaw, 1883. An Unsocial Socialist, Standard Edition of the Works of Bernard Shaw. (London: Constable & Co, Ltd. 1932); 11. (All references hereafter are to the Standard Edition and will be cited parenthetically in the text).
- 15.
Barbara Bellow Watson, “Introduction” in Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist, ed. R.F. Dietrich, (New York: Norton, 1972), xii.
- 16.
Ibid., xiii.
- 17.
Eileen Sypher, “Fabian Anti-Novel: Shaw’s An Unsocial Socialist,” Literature and History 11 (2005), 4.
- 18.
Holroyd, The Search for Love, I, 117–18.
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Ibid., 116.
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Archibald Henderson, 16.
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Holroyd, The Search for Love, I, 120.
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Ibid.
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Quoted in Holroyd, The Search for Love, 1,17.
- 24.
Sypher, 242–43.
- 25.
See Weintraub, “Embryo Playwright” and Sypher, “Fabian Anti-Novel.”
- 26.
Dietrich, Bernard Shaw’s Novels, 158.
- 27.
Weintraub, “Embryo Playwright,” 329.
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Tallent Lenker, L. (2024). Shaw’s Novels—Dramatic Narratives. In: Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49604-2_3
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