SHAW'S FICTION
(For The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, see
‘Shaw’s Beliefs and Theories’)
Adams, Elsie B. ‘A “Lawrentian” novel by Bernard Shaw.’ D. H.
Lawrence Review 2 1969 245-53 (Cashel Byron’s Profession anticipates
Lady Chatterley’s Lover)
-----. ‘The portrait of the artist in Bernard Shaw’s novels.’ English
Literature in Transition 10 1967 130-49
Bhandari, Sudha A. The Dharma of Shavian fiction. New Delhi:
Sanchar, 1991. 216 pp
Berst, Charles A. ‘The Irrational Knot: the art of Shaw as a
young Ibsenite.’ Journal of English and Germanic Philology 85 1986
222-48
Bissell, Claude T. ‘The novels of Bernard Shaw.’ University of
Toronto Quarterly 17 1947-48 38-51; repr. on pp 59-73 in Adams
Cherry, D. R. ‘Shaw’s novels.’ Dalhousie Review 42 1962-63
459-71
Crawford, Fred D. ‘Shaw’s collaboration in The Salt of the Earth.’
SHAW 9 1989 39-43 (text of the short novel follows, 45-78)
Dietrich, Richard F. Bernard Shaw’s novels: portraits of the artist
as man and superman. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996. 203 pp (vastly
revised version of Portrait of the artist as a young superman: a study of
Shaw’s novels. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Pr., 1969. 197 pp)
Dorob|Û, Dumitru. ‘Bernard
Shaw—romancier.’ Pp 339-54 in Shaw. Professinia lui Cashel Byron. Jassy:
Junimea, 1983
Finkelstein, David. ‘Immaturity considered: George Bernard Shaw
and his dealings with William Blackwood & Sons.’ Notes & Queries
40 1993 61-63
Gibbs, A. M. Bernard Shaw: a life. Gainesville: UP of Florida,
2005, 77-102: ‘Self-searching: London and the novels’
Glicksberg, Charles I. ‘Shaw the novelist.’ Prairie Schooner 25
1951 1-9
Goodman, Phyllis M. ‘Beethoven as the prototype of Owen Jack.’ Shaw
Review 8 1965 12-24
Green, Benny. Shaw's champions: G.B.S. & prizefighting from
Cashel Byron to Gene Tunney. London : Elm Tree Books, 1978, 3-22 and see
index
Grene, Nicholas. ‘The maturing of Immaturity: Shaw’s first
novel.’ Irish University Review 20 1990 225-38
Haddad, Rosalie R. Bernard Shaw’s novels: his drama of ideas in
embryo. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004. 165 pp; ‘Bernard
Shaw’s novels: a critical view.’ ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of
Irish Studies 7 June 2005 41-49
Henderson, Archibald. George Bernard Shaw: man of the century.
NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956, 93-131 (incorporates ‘Bernard Shaw’s novels,
and why they failed.’ Dalhousie Review 34 1955 373-82; repr. in Shaw
Bulletin 1 viii 1955 11-18)
Hogan, Robert. ‘The novels of Bernard Shaw.’ English Literature in
Transition 8 1965 63-114
Holland, Michael J. ‘Shaw’s short fiction: a path to drama.’ SHAW
9 1989 113-30
Holroyd, Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume I: 1856-1898: The search for
love. NY: Random House, 1988, 73-80 (Immaturity), 115-20 (An
Unsocial Socialist); ‘Bernard Shaw the immature novelist.’ Irish
University Review 30 2000 209-19 (on Immaturity)
Irvine, William. The universe of G.B.S. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1949, 22-34:
‘Five novels in a vacuum’ (from ‘Bernard Shaw’s early novels.’ Trollopian
2 1947 27-42)
Loewenstein, F. E. The history of a famous novel. London:
Privately printed, 1946. 22 pp (An Unsocial Socialist)
Mercier, Vivian. Modern Irish literature: sources and founders.
Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1994, 119-27: ‘Shaw as novelist, 1878-88’
Morgan, Margery M. The Shavian playground: an exploration of the art
of George Bernard Shaw. London: Methuen, 1972, 9-22: ‘The novels’
Nady, Abdul-Gawad el-. ‘Elements of drama in Bernard
Shaw’s novel, Cashel Byron’s Profession.’
Pp 567-634 in Mary Massoud, ed. New readings of
old masters. Cairo: Macmillan, 2004
Nethercot, Arthur. Men and supermen: the Shavian portrait gallery.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1954, see index
Parsons, Melinda B. ‘The “unmechanicalness” of photography: Bernard
Shaw’s activist photographic philosophy.’ Colby Library Quarterly 25
1989 64-73 (part on An Unsocial Socialist)
Peters, Sally. Bernard Shaw: the ascent of the Superman. New
Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1996, 78-84 (incorporates ‘The noble art: Shaw and boxing.’
Rackham Journal of the Arts and Humanities 1991-92 2-4)
Rao, E. Nageswara. ‘The dramatic apprenticeship of Bernard Shaw: the
relationship of the “nonage” novels to the plays.’ Pp 9-22 in Pandey
-----. Shaw the novelist: a critical study of Shaw’s narrative
fiction. Masulipatam: Triveni, 1959. 114 pp
Rodenbeck, John von B. ‘Bernard Shaw’s revolt against rationalism.’ Victorian
Studies 15 1972 409-37
-----. ‘The Irrational Knot: Shaw and the uses of Ibsen.’ Shaw
Review 12 1969 66-76
Ryan, Kiernan. ‘Citizens of centuries to come: the ruling-class rebel
in socialist fiction.’ Pp 6-27 in H. Gustav Klaus, ed. The rise of socialist
fiction, 1880-1914. Sussex: Harvester Pr., 1987 (8-12 on An Unsocial
Socialist)
Silver, Arnold J. Bernard
Shaw: the darker side. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1982, 55-75: ‘An
Unsocial Socialist’
Smith, J. Percy. The unrepentant pilgrim: a study of the development
of Bernard Shaw. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965, 39-52
Sypher, Eileen. ‘Fabian anti-novel: Shaw’s An Unsocial Socialist.’
Literature and History 11 1985 241-53
Topping, Scott. ‘Ring Lardner on Cashel Byron’s Profession.’ Independent
Shavian 32 1994 39-40
Tunney, Jay. ‘Cashel Byron’s Profession: a catalyst to
friendship—life imitates art.’ SHAW 25 2005 52-58
Watson, Barbara B. ‘Introduction.’ Pp xi-xiv in Shaw. An Unsocial
Socialist. NY: Norton, 1972
Weintraub, Stanley. ‘Bernard Shaw, Charles Lever and Immaturity.’
Shaw Bulletin 2 i 1957 11-15
-----. ‘Bernard Shaw, novelist.’ Dissertation, Penn State Univ., 1956
(the basis of most scholarship on the novels)
-----. ‘Cetewayo: Shaw’s first hero from history.’ SHAW 19 1999
7-22
-----. ‘The embryo playwright in Bernard Shaw’s early novels.’ Texas
Studies in Literature and Language 1 1959 327-55; repr. in California
Shavian 4 vi 1963 2-17
-----. ‘Humors’ names in Shaw’s prentice novels.’ Names 5 1957
222-25
-----. ‘Ibsen’s Doll’s House metaphor foreshadowed in Victorian
fiction.’ Nineteenth Century Fiction 13 1958 67-69
-----. ‘Introduction.’ Pp ix-xv in Shaw. Cashel Byron’s Profession.
Ed. Weintraub. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1968
-----. The unexpected Shaw: biographical approaches to G.B.S. and
his work. NY: Ungar, 1982, 24-36: ‘The novelist in spite of himself’
(revised version of his introduction to An Unfinished Novel); 37-45:
‘G.B.S., pugilist and playwright’
West, Alick. George Bernard Shaw: ‘a good man fallen among Fabians’.
NY: International, 1950, 1-21: ‘The first four novels’; 22-33: ‘An Unsocial
Socialist’
Wodehouse, P. G. ‘The pugilist in fiction.’ Independent Shavian
30 1992 12-14