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Ausubel,
Herman. In hard times: reformers among the late Victorians. NY:
Baylen,
Joseph O. ‘George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist League: some unpublished
letters.’ International Review of Social History 7 1962 426-40
Brüser,
Ernst. ‘Bernard Shaw als Kritiker des Kapitalismus—und wir.’ Neueren
Sprachen 48 1940 101-07
Davis,
Tracy C. George Bernard Shaw and the socialist theatre.
Einsohn,
Howard I. ‘The biophile: Frommian and Aristotelian perspectives on Shavian
ethics.’ SHAW 10 1990 113-35
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intelligent reader’s guide to The Apple Cart.’ SHAW 9 1989 145-60
(its kinship with The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism)
Eltis, Sos.
‘Bernard Shaw (1856-1950).’ Pp 273-88 in Gary Kelly & Edd Applegate, eds. Dictionary
of literary biography, volume 190: British reform writers, 1832-1914.
Gibbs, A.
M. ‘Yeats, Shaw and the unity of culture.’ Southern Review (
Glicksberg,
Charles. ‘Shaw on education.’ Educational Forum 18 1953 38-48
Greiner,
Norbert. ‘Shaw’s aesthetics and socialist realism.’ Shaw Review 22 1979
33-45
Griffith,
Gareth. Socialism and superior brains: the political thought of Bernard Shaw.
Hobsbawm,
E. J. ‘Bernard Shaw’s socialism.’ Science and Society 11 1947 305-26
Hulse,
James W. Revolutionists in
Hunningher,
B. ‘Shaw en Brecht: wegen en grenzen van sozialistisch theater.’ Forum der
Letteren 12 1971 173-90
Ingle,
Stephen. Socialist thought in imaginative literature.
Ketels,
Violet B. ‘Shaw, [C. P.] Snow, and the New Men.’ Personalist 47 1966
520-31
Marcus,
Hans. ‘Sozialpolitisches bei G. B. Shaw.’ Neueren Sprachen 46 1940
495-508
Morrison,
Harry. The socialism of Bernard Shaw.
Neill, A.
S. ‘Shaw and education.’ Pp 140-51 in Winsten
Nethercot,
Arthur. ‘Shaw’s feud with higher education.’ Journal of General Education
16 1964 105-19
Nickson,
Richard. ‘Shaw and Shelley’s socialism.’ Independent Shavian 36 1998
51-54
Parkinson,
C. Northcote. Left luggage: a caustic history of British socialism from Marx
to Wilson.
Pastalosky,
Rosa. George Bernard Shaw: su ideario político, folosófico y social.
Pettet,
Edwin B. ‘Shaw’s socialist Life Force.’ Educational Theatre Journal 3
1951 109-14
Pierson,
Stanley. British socialists: the journey from fantasy to politics.
Redmond,
James. ‘William Morris or Bernard Shaw: two faces of Victorian socialism.’ Pp
156-76 in John E. Butt & I. F. Clarke, eds. Victorians and social
protest.
Simon,
Louis. Shaw on education. NY:
Strauss,
Erich. Bernard Shaw: art and socialism.
Tienken,
Arturo L. ‘Bernard Shaw, reformador.’ Atenea 126 1956 80-96
Valakya, A.
C. Singh. Social and political ideas of George Bernard Shaw.
Vandewalle,
G. G. B. Shaw en het Britse socialisme.
Wallis,
Eric. ‘The Intelligent Woman’s Guide: some contemporary opinions.’ SHAW
11 1991 185-93 (introduction to opinions of Harold J. Laski, M. C. D’Arcy, A.
L. Rowse, and Kenneth Pickthorn, 195-211)
Wolf,
Matthias. ‘Shaw und Sozialismus: humanistische Intentionen und weltanschauliche
Grenzen in der politisch-publizistischen Tätigkeit.’ Wissenschaftliche
Zeitschrift der Pädagogischen Hochschule, Potsdam 33 1989 175-81
Allen, Brooke. Twentieth-century
attitudes: literary powers in uncertain times.
Bevir,
Mark. ‘The Marxism of George Bernard Shaw 1883-1889.’ History of Political
Thought 13 1992 299-318
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and culture: a study in British socialism and the arts, c. 1884-1918.
Cherry, D.
R. ‘The Fabianism of Shaw.’ Queen’s Quarterly 69 1962 83-93
Cole,
Margaret. ‘G.B.S. and Fabian socialism.’ Fabian Journal 3 1951 11-14
Crompton,
Louis. ‘Introduction.’ Pp ix-xxxvi in Shaw. The road to equality: ten
unpublished lectures and essays, 1884-1918.
Dalton,
Hugh. ‘Shaw as economist and politician.’ Pp 250-62 in Joad (1951
lecture)
Dobb,
Maurice. On economic theory and socialism: collected papers. NY:
International, 1955, 205-14: ‘Bernard Shaw and economics’ (from pp 131-39 in Winsten)
Dukore, Bernard
F. Money & politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht.
Dunn,
David. ‘A good Fabian fallen among the Stalinists.’ Survey 28 iv 1984
15-37
Geduld,
Harry M. ‘The Comprehensionist.’ Shavian 2 vii 1963 22-26 (Frederick J.
Wilson, some of whose radical theories captivated Shaw)
Greiner,
Norbert. ‘Shaws fabianische Ideologiekritik und ihre dramaturgischen Folgen.’
Pp 229-49 in Otten
Hill, Clive
E. Understanding the Fabian Essays on [sic] Socialism.
Holberg,
Stanley M. The economic rogue in the plays of Bernard Shaw.
Holroyd,
Michael. Bernard Shaw, volume III: 1918-1951: The lure of fantasy. NY:
Random House, 1991, 128-37 (on The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism
and Capitalism)
Hummert,
Paul A. Bernard Shaw’s Marxian romance.
Irvine,
William. The universe of
Knepper, B.
G. ‘Shaw and the unblessed poor.’
Laidler,
Harry W. History of Socialism: a comparative survey of Socialism, Communism,
trade unionism, cooperation, utopianism, and other systems of reform and
reconstruction. NY: Crowell, 1968, 184-222: ‘Fabianism’ (standard older
textbook with a rare extended treatment of Fabianism, including a cogent précis
of Shaw’s essay on the economic basis of socialism in Fabian essays in
socialism [203-08])
Mackenzie, Norman, & Jeanne Mackenzie. H. G. Wells: a biography.
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1973,
184-200: ‘Faults of the Fabian’; 201-20: ‘Storm in a Fabian teacup’
McBriar, A.
M. Fabian socialism and English politics 1884-1918. NY:
McKernan, Jim. ‘George Bernard Shaw, the Fabian
Society, and reconstructionist education policy: the London School of Economics
and Political Science.’ Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 2
ii 2004 unpaged (10 pages): <http://www.jceps.com/?pageID=article&articleID=34>
Meyer,
Monique. ‘George Bernard Shaw, economiste.’ Revue d’Histoire Economique et
Sociale 44 i 1966 66-106
Muir,
Kenneth. ‘Shaw and the Fabian Society.’ Aligarh Journal of English Studies
14 1989 142-52 (in relation to the plays)
Pham,
Julie. ‘J. S. Furnivall and Fabianism: reinterpreting the “plural society” in
Pugh,
Patricia. Educate, agitate, organize: 100 years of Fabian socialism.
Ratcliffe,
S. K. ‘Shaw as a young socialist.’ Pp 54-65 in Joad
Reader, J. M. ‘Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, and the
businessman in literature.’ Pp 185-204 in Neil McKendrick and R.B. Outhwaite,
eds. Business life and public policy: essays in honour of D. C. Coleman.
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.
Schwartzman,
Jack. ‘Henry George and George Bernard Shaw, comparison and contrast: the two
19th century intellectual leaders stood for ethical democracy vs.
socialist statism.’ American Journal of Economics and Sociology 49 i
1990 113-27
Skidelsky,
Robert. ‘The Fabian ethic.’ Pp 113-28 in Holroyd
Stigler,
George J. Essays in the history of economics.
Stokes, E.
E. ‘Bernard Shaw and economics.’ Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 39
1958 241-48
Sypher,
Eileen. ‘Fabian anti-novel: Shaw’s An Unsocial Socialist.’ Literature
and History 11 1985 241-53
Throne,
Marilyn. ‘The social value of the privileged class: a comparison of Shaw’s Heartbreak
House and Friel’s Aristocrats.’ Colby Library Quarterly 24
1988 162-72
Trexler,
Adam. ‘Economic ideas and British literature, 1900-1930: the Fabian Society,
West,
Alick. George Bernard Shaw: ‘a good man fallen among Fabians’. NY:
International, 1950. 172 pp (Marxist view)
Williams,
Raymond. Culture and society, 1780-1950. NY: Columbia UP, 1958, 179-85:
‘Shaw and Fabianism’
Wolfe,
Willard. From radicalism to socialism: men and ideas in the formation of
Fabian socialist doctrines, 1881-1889. New Haven: Yale UP, 1975, 113-49:
‘George Bernard Shaw: the radical-libertarian road to socialism’; 284-91:
‘Shaw’s doctrine of collectivism’; see also index
Woolf,
Leonard. ‘The early Fabians and British socialism.’ Pp 39-53 in Joad
Bergquist,
Gordon N. The pen and the sword: war and peace in the plays of Bernard Shaw.
Salzburg: Institut für Englische Sprache und Literatur, Universität Salzburg,
1977. 211 pp
Broich,
Ulrich. ‘Ezra Pound, Shaw und Wyndham Lewis als Bewunderer von Lenin und
Mussolini.’ Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 50 2000 461-78
Buchan,
Norman. ‘Shaw and parliamentary democracy: a parliamentarian’s view.’ SHAW
11 1991 65-77
Carpenter,
Charles A. Dramatists and the bomb: American and British playwrights
confront the Nuclear Age, 1945-1964. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pr., 1999,
55-60: ‘Shaw’s reactions to the birth of the Atomic Age’ (from SHAW 18
1998 173-79)
Codignola,
Luciano. L’uso politico del teatro. Rome: Bulzoni, 1979, 103-85:
‘Rileggendo GBS’
Colby,
Robert A. ‘Socialist to Carbonato: George Bernard Shaw’s dealing with Paul
Reynolds.’ Columbia Library Columns 38 iii 1989 3-14 (he asked his
American agent to see President Wilson about the war)
Crawford,
Fred D. ‘Swift and Shaw against the war.’ SHAW 6 1986 13-32
Crick,
Bernard. ‘Shaw as political thinker, or the dogs that did not bark.’ SHAW
11 1991 21-36
Davies, A.
Emil. ‘G.B.S. and local government.’ Pp 152-57 in Winsten
Davis,
Tracy C. ‘Shaw’s interstices of empire: decolonizing at home and abroad.’ Pp
218-39 in Innes (plays that embody critiques of colonialism)
Dearden,
James S. ‘Ruskin’s politics by Bernard Shaw.’ Book Collector 20
1971 335-46 (history of its publication)
Dukore,
Bernard F. Money & politics in Ibsen, Shaw, and Brecht. Columbia:
Univ. of Missouri Pr., 1980. 172 pp
Evans, T.
F. ‘Introduction: The political Shaw.’ SHAW 11 1991 1-19; repr. on pp
382-400 in Byrne (useful framework of ideas for a special issue of SHAW)
Field,
Frank. British and French writers of the First World War: comparative
studies in cultural history. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991, 123-52: ‘H. G.
Wells, Bernard Shaw: prophecy and heartbreak’
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‘Karl Kraus, Bernard Shaw and Romain Rolland as opponents of the First World
War.’ Pp 158-73 in Sigurd P. Scheichl & Edward Timms, eds. Karl Kraus in
neuer Sicht: Londoner Karl-Kraus Symposium / Karl Kraus in a new perspective:
London Kraus Symposium. Munich: Text + Kritik, 1986
Geduld,
Harry M. ‘Bernard Shaw, vestryman and borough councillor.’ California
Shavian 3 iii 1962 unpaged; repr. in Shavian 2 ix 1964 7-13
Gibbs, A.
M. ‘Bernard Shaw’s politics.’ Pp 95-104 in Heinz Kosok, ed. Studies in Anglo-Irish
literature. Bonn: Bouvier, 1982 (stresses political plays)
Griffith,
Gareth. Socialism and superior brains: the political thought of Bernard Shaw.
London: Routledge, 1993. 306 pp (incorporates ‘George Bernard Shaw’s argument
for equality of income.’ History of Political Thought 6 1985 551-74)
Grimes,
Charles. ‘Bernard Shaw’s theory of political theater: difficulties from the
vantages of postmodern and modern types of the self.’ SHAW 22 2002
117-30
Hale,
Thomas F. ‘Bernard Shaw: the emergence of a republican royalist.’ SHAW 2
1982 57-74
Hanson,
Michael H. ‘Dialogue with history: roles of irony in thinking about new kinds
of war.’ Metaphor and Symbol 19 2004 191-212 (part on the irony in
Shaw’s criticism of World War I)
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‘Irony and conflict: lessons from George Bernard Shaw’s wartime journey.’ Pp
19-44 in Doris B. Wallace, ed. Education, arts, and morality: creative
journeys. NY: Kluwer Academic / Plenum, 2005
Hill, C. E.
‘Shaw and local government.’ SHAW 11 1991 131-47
Holroyd,
Michael. ‘The political philosophy of Bernard Shaw and the St. Pancras Vestry.’
Camden History Review 21 1997 2-6
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‘Women and the body politic.’ Critical Inquiry 6 1979 17-32; repr. on pp
167-83 in Holroyd
Hubenka,
Lloyd J. ‘Introduction.’ Pp vii-xxv in Shaw. Practical politics:
twentieth-century views on politics and economics. Lincoln: Univ. of
Nebraska Pr., 1976
Innes,
Christopher. ‘Utopian apocalypses: Shaw, war, and H. G. Wells.’ SHAW 23
2003 37-46
Irvine,
William. The universe of G.B.S. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1949 (incorporates
‘Shaw, war and peace, 1894-1919.’ Foreign Affairs 25 1947 314-27)
Isser,
Edward R. Stages of annihilation: theatrical representations of the
Holocaust. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1997, 44-61: ‘Bernard Shaw
and British Holocaust drama’; repr. in SHAW 12 1992 111-23 (Geneva
and seven postwar plays by other dramatists that utilize its themes)
Jemnitz,
János. ‘F. Adler és G. B. Shaw vitája az Olasz Fasizmusról.’ Történelmi
Szemle 10 i 1967 57-75
Kenny,
Brendan. ‘Shaw’s theater: upsetting the applecart of government.’ English
Journal 61 1972 670-72, 684
Kosok,
Heinz. ‘Two Irish perspectives on World War I: Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey.’ Hungarian
Journal of English and American Studies 2 ii 1996 17-29; also in Bernard Shaw Studies
(Nagoya) 4 1999 1-25
Lenker,
Lagretta T. ‘Make war on war: a Shavian conundrum.’ Pp 165-85 in Sara M. Deats
et al., eds. War and words: horror and heroism in the literature of warfare.
Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2004 (treats the topic as it emerges in five plays)
Leroy,
Pierre. ‘La politique dans l’oeuvre de George-Bernard Shaw.’ Revue Politique
et Parlementaire 71 1969 65-73
Lupis-Vukic,
J. F. ‘Shaw’s 1929 program for easing world tensions—and how it originated.’ Shaw
Bulletin 2 iv 1958 1-4
McDowell,
Frederick P. W. ‘Everybody’s Political What’s What: a twelfth
anniversary.’ Shavian no. 7 1956 39-42
Meisel,
Martin. ‘Shaw and revolution: the politics of the plays.’ Pp 106-34 in Rosenblood
2 (dramaturgy with a political thrust)
Nickson,
Richard. ‘The art of Shavian political drama.’ Modern Drama 14 1971
324-30; repr. in Independent Shavian 39 2001 51-58 and in Pemmican
Winter 2006 (unpaged; online at
<http://www.pemmicanpress.com/articles/shavian_nickson.html>)
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‘GBS: British fascist? The Shaw-Salvemini controversy.’ Independent Shavian
16 1978 33-37 (from Shavian no. 16 1959 9-15); ‘GBS: Mosleyite.’ Independent
Shavian 17 1978-79 10-12 (from Shavian 2 ii 1960 11-14)
-----. ‘The
lure of Stalinism: Bernard Shaw and company.’ Midwest Quarterly 25 1984
416-33; repr. in Independent Shavian 40 2002 31-43
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‘Shaw and anarchism: among the leftists.’ Independent Shavian 26 1988
3-13
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on nuclear war.’ Independent Shavian 22 1984 30-33
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‘Shaw on the dictators: labels and libels.’ CEA Critic 29 viii 1967 3,
8-9; repr. in Independent Shavian 18 1980 7-12
Pharand,
Michel W. Bernard Shaw and the French. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2000;
incorporates ‘Above the battle? Bernard Shaw, Romain Rolland, and the politics
of pacifism.’ SHAW 11 1991 169-83
Pugh,
Patricia. ‘Bernard Shaw, imperialist.’ SHAW 11 1991 97-118
Robson,
William A. ‘Bernard Shaw and the Political Quarterly.’ Political
Quarterly 22 1951 221-39
Schrank,
Bernice. ‘World War I in the plays of Shaw, O’Casey and McGuiness.’ Études
Irlandaises 17 ii 1992 29-36
Schuhmann,
Kuno. ‘George Bernard Shaw und die parlamentarische Demokratie.’ Pp 83-94 in
Paul Goetsch & Heinz J. Müllenbrock, eds. Englische Literatur und
Politik im 20. Jahrhundert. Wiesbaden: Athenaion, 1981
Taylor, A.
J. P., & Chris Wrigley. From the Boer War to the Cold War: essays on twentieth-century
Europe. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985, 61-64: ‘Shaw: the court jester’
Weintraub,
Stanley. ‘Jesting and governing: Shaw and Churchill.’ Pp 15-32 in C. C. Barfoot
& Rias van den Doel, eds. Ritual remembering: history, myth and politics
in Anglo-Irish drama. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995 (Costerus 99)
Wilson,
Edmund. Classics and commercials: a literary chronicle of the forties.
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1950, 238-43: ‘Bernard Shaw on the training of
a statesman’ (review of Everybody’s Political What’s What? from New
Yorker 20 Oct 28 1944 68, 70, 73)