LEADER 04441nam 22006495 450 001 9910735781703321 005 20230719142447.0 010 $a3-031-32589-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-32589-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30657001 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30657001 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-32589-2 035 $a(CKB)27675014500041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927675014500041 100 $a20230719d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBernard Shaw $eReimagining Women and Ireland, 1892?1914 /$fby Audrey McNamara 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (176 pages) 225 1 $aBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,$x2634-582X 311 08$aPrint version: McNamara, Audrey Bernard Shaw Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031325885 327 $a1. Introduction: Women, Nation, Enablement, and the Irish Question -- 2. The Opposing Strata of Feminism: Widowers? Houses and Mrs Warren?s Profession -- 3. The Marriage of Change: Candida & Getting Married -- 4. John Bull, Nora Reilly and the Garden City: A Match Made in Heaven -- 5. The Wild West Meets the West End. 330 $a?This study advances an ambitious and timely thesis: namely, that Shaw?s representation of and advocacy for women?s rights (and importantly marriage rights) parallels and informs his views of the coterminous Irish nationalist project. Audrey McNamara wisely focuses her attention on plays written between 1892 and 1914, a crucial period for both movements. This interpretive goal and the structure of the argument that supports it allow McNamara to produce very fine readings of several of Shaw?s most important plays and one or two that have not received the critical attention they deserve.? ? Stephen Watt, Provost Professor of English, Indiana University, USA ?This timely and ground-breaking study is centrally concerned with two topics that have attracted increased interest within Shaw Studies over the past decade: Shaw?s views on marriage and his relationship to Ireland. McNamara makes insightful and original points about both of these concerns, and ? even better still ? she shows the relationship between them, thereby demonstrating how Shaw?s early preoccupation with marriage and the marriage question became the tool with which he interrogated the Irish question.? ? David Clare, Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advocated for societal changes with regard to women?s roles, while expanding this advocacy into considerations of Ireland. Shaw?s engagement with marriage and union as a personal contract with nationhood have never before been considered as a methodology with which to view his work. This book demonstrates that Shaw was deeply engaged with and committed to the Irish question and to social and gender issues. Audrey McNamara lectures at University College Dublin, and is an adjunct lecturer at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She was guest co-editor for Shaw 36.1: Shaw and Money (2016) and co-editor for Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland (2020). 410 0$aBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries,$x2634-582X 606 $aTheater?History 606 $aGreat Britain?History 606 $aPlaywriting 606 $aDramatists 606 $aSocial history 606 $aTheatre History 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aPlaywrights and Playwriting 606 $aSocial History 615 0$aTheater?History. 615 0$aGreat Britain?History. 615 0$aPlaywriting. 615 0$aDramatists. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 14$aTheatre History. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aPlaywrights and Playwriting. 615 24$aSocial History. 676 $a822.912 676 $a822.912 700 $aMcNamara$b Audrey$01379060 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910735781703321 996 $aBernard Shaw$93418538 997 $aUNINA