Overview: Examines the relationship between materialism, feeling, and emotion throughout Shaw‘s canon.Compares the work of Shaw, Sigmund Freud, and Georg Simmel in relation to human subjectivity.Illuminates the.This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters. While this study focuses on the protagonists of the five novels Shaw wrote in the late 1870s and early 1880s, it also explores how materialism, feeling, and emotion are linked throughout his entire canon. At the same time, it demonst
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