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Science Fiction and Utopian Literature

Shaw and Dickens

Miscellaneous

 

 

Science Fiction and Utopian Literature

 

See also Back to Methuselah, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, and Farfetched Fables

 

Pfeiffer, John R. ‘A Shaw / science fiction checklist.’ Shaw Review 16 1973 100-103

 

 

Beilharz, Peter. Labour’s Utopias: bolshevism, fabianism, social democracy. London: Routledge,

1992, 83-90: “Utopia on another Shaw”; repr. in The Webbs, fabianism and feminism: fabianism

and the political economy of everyday life. Ed. Beilharz & Chris Nyland. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998,

44-53

 

Bissell, Claude. ‘The Butlerian inheritance of G. B. Shaw.’ Dalhousie Review 41 1961 159-73

 

Bradbury, Ray. ‘G.B.S.: refurbishing the tin woodman: science fiction with a heart, a brain, and the nerve!’ SHAW 17 1997 11-17

 

Clarke, Arthur C. ‘Shaw and the sound barrier.’ Virginia Quarterly Review 36 1960 72-77 (includes letters)

 

Coleman, D. C. ‘Bernard Shaw and Brave New World.’ Shaw Review 10 1967 6-8

 

Einsohn, Howard I. ‘Ideology, Utopia, and faith: Shaw, Ricoeur, and the passion for the possible.’ SHAW 15 1995 105-21

 

Hearell, W. Dale. ‘Longevity and supermen: Robert A. Heinlein’s debt to George Bernard Shaw.’ Re: Artes Liberales 6 i 1979 21-28

 

Jameson, Fredric. Archaeologies of the future: the desire called utopia and other science fictions. NY: Verso, 2005, 328-44: ‘Longevity as class struggle’ (from pp. 24-42 in George E. Slusser et al., eds. Immortal engines: life extension and immortality in science fiction and fantasy. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Pr., 1996)

 

Kagarlitski, Julius. ‘Bernard Shaw and science fiction: why raise the question?’ Shaw Review 16 1973 59-66

 

Nethercot, Arthur. ‘Bernard Shaw, mathematical mystic.’ Shaw Review 12 1969 2-26

 

Sedlak, Werner. ‘Utopie und Darwinismus.’ Pp 216-38 in Manfred Pfister, ed. Alternative Welten. Munich: Fink, 1982 (228-33 on Shaw)

 

Slusser, George. ‘Last men and first women: the dynamics of life extension in Shaw and Heinlein.’ SHAW 17 1997 133-53

 

Sparks, Julie A. ‘The evolution of human virtue: precedents for Shaw’s “world betterer” in the Utopias of Bellamy, Morris, and Bulwer-Lytton.’ Pp 63-82 in Rusinko

 

Wallmann, Jeffrey M. ‘Evolutionary machinery: foreshadowings of science fiction in Bernard Shaw’s dramas.’ SHAW 17 1997 80-95

 

Wisenthal, J. L. ‘Shaw’s Utopias.’ SHAW 17 1997 53-64

 

 

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Shaw and Dickens

 

Rosenberg, Edgar. ‘The Shaw / Dickens file: 1885 to 1950: two checklists.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 148-70, 21 1978 2-19 (annotated); ‘The Shaw / Dickens file: 1914 to 1950; an annotated checklist (concluded). Addenda: 1885 to 1919.’  SHAW 2 1982 101-45

 

 

Amalric, Jean C. Studies in Bernard Shaw. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1992, 27-34: ‘Shaw as a critic of Dickens’ (from Independent Shavian 19 1981 63-68)

 

Brooks, Harold F. & Jean R. Brooks. ‘Dickens in Shaw.’ Dickensian 59 1963 93-99

 

Drew, Arnold P. ‘Pygmalion and Pickwick.’ Notes & Queries 2 1955 221-22

 

Frank, Joseph. ‘Internal vs. external combustion: Dickens’ Bleak House and Shaw’s Major Barbara and Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 126-34

 

Goldberg, Michael K. ‘Dickens and the early modern theatre.’ Pp 168-83 in Carol H. McKay, ed. Dramatic Dickens. NY: St. Martin’s Pr., 1989

 

-----. ‘The Dickens debate: G.B.S. vs. G.K.C.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 135-47

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s Dickensian quintessence.’ Shaw Review 14 1971 14-28

 

-----. ‘Shaw’s Pygmalion: the reworking of Great Expectations.’ Shaw Review 22 1979 114-22

 

Herr, Linda L. ‘Dickens’ Jaggers and Shaw’s Bohun: a study of “character lifting.”’ Shaw Review 20 1977 110-18

 

House, Humphrey. All in due time: the collected essays and broadcast talks. London: Hart-Davis, 1955, 201-20: ‘G.B.S. on Great Expectations’ (from Dickensian 44 1948 63-70, 183-86)

 

Johnson, Edgar. ‘Dickens and Shaw: critics of society.’ Virginia Quarterly Review 33 1957 66-79 (from Shaw Bulletin no. 4 1953 1-7)

 

Lucas, John. ‘Dickens and Shaw: women and marriage in David Copperfield and Candida.’ Shaw Review 22 1979 13-22

 

Myer, Michael G. ‘Dickensian echoes in Shaw: Our Mutual Friend and Pygmalion.’ Notes & Queries 31 1984 508

 

Quinn, Martin. ‘Dickens and Misalliance.’ Shaw Review 17 1974 141-43

 

-----. ‘Dickens as Shavian metaphor.’Shaw Review 18 1975 44-56

 

-----. ‘The Dickensian presence in Heartbreak House.’ Shaw Review 20 1977 119-25

 

-----. ‘The informing presence of Charles Dickens in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.’ Dickensian 404 1984 144-50

 

Rockman, Robert E. ‘Dickens and Shaw: another parallel.’ Shaw Bulletin 2 i 1957 8-10 (Sartorius and Lickcheese may derive from Little Dorrit)

  

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Miscellaneous

 

Bernal, J. D. ‘Shaw the scientist.’ Pp 93-105 in Winsten (reflections of his scientific knowledge—and lack of it)

 

Dunlap, Joseph R. ‘The typographical Shaw: GBS and the revival of printing.’ Bulletin of the New York Public Library 64 1960 534-47; repr. in Shavian 2 iii 1961 4-15

 

Ehrenwald, Jan. ‘Shaw and telepathy.’ Independent Shavian 341996 51-53

 

Evans, T. F. ‘Shaw and cricket.’ SHAW 12 1992 47-56

 

Gilkes, A. N. ‘G.B.S., G.K.C. and paradox.’ Fortnightly Review 174 1950 266-70

 

Glicksberg, Charles. ‘Shaw vs. science.’ Dalhousie Review 28 1948 271-83

 

Grossman, Manuel L. ‘Propaganda techniques in selected essays of George Bernard Shaw.’ Southern Speech Journal 32 1967 225-36

 

Hulban, Horia. ‘Notes on the style of G. B. Shaw’s correspondence.’ Analele ÔtiinÛifice ale Universit|tii . . . IaÕi 16 1970 129-38

 

Kalmar, Jack. ‘Shaw on art.’ Modern Drama 2 1959 147-59

 

Kelly, Katherine E. ‘Imprinting the stage: Shaw and the publishing trade, 1883-1903.’ Pp 25-54 in Innes

 

McAfee, Skip. ‘Quoting baseball: the intellectual take on our national pastime.’ Nine 13 ii 2005 82-94 (includes several Shaw statements)

 

McDowell, Frederick P. W. ‘Protean wit and wisdom: Shaw’s uncollected essays and speeches.’ Modern Drama 5 1962 187-93

 

McRory, Desmond J. ‘Shaw, Einstein and physics.’ SHAW 6 1986 33-67

 

Nichols, Marie H. Rhetoric and criticism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ.Pr., 1963, 109-29: ‘George Bernard Shaw: rhetorician and public speaker’

 

Ohmann, Richard M. Shaw: the style and the man. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1962. 200 pp (style in the non-dramatic writings)

 

Parsons, Melinda B. ‘The “unmechanicalness” of photography: Bernard Shaw’s activist photographic philosophy.’ Colby Library Quarterly 25 1989 64-73

 

-----, & Gary J. Pascuzzo. ‘Bernard Shaw: “unmechanical” photography and unconventional science.’ History of Photography 26 2001 170-77

 

Pharand, Michel W. ‘Getting published: Grant Richards and the Shaw book.’ SHAW 27 2007 69-86

 

Severns, Jim. ‘Bernard Shaw as beast fabulist.’ Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society 3 1991 108-14

 

Shand, James. ‘Author and printer: G.B.S. and R. & R. C.: 1898-1948.’ Alphabet and Image 8 1948 3-38; repr. on pp 381-401 in P. A. Bennett, ed. Books and printing. Cleveland: World, 1951

 

Verma, Shephali. ‘Shaw’s views on medical profession reexamined.’ Indian Scholar 12 ii 1990 65-71

 

Weimar, Michael. ‘Shaw and impressionism.’ Independent Shavian 29 1991 31-39

 

Weintraub, Stanley. ‘In the Victorian picture galleries.’ Pp 1-44 in Shaw. Bernard Shaw on the London art scene 1885-1950. Univ. Park: Penn State UP, 1989; see also his ‘In the picture galleries.’ Pp 43-63 in Holroyd

 

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