Bernard Shaw and totalitarianism : longing for utopia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yde, Matthew
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	Shaw, Bernard, > 1856-1950 > Political and social views. Shaw, Bernard, > 1856-1950 > Criticism and interpretation. Totalitarianism and literature. Literature and society > England > History > 19th century. Literature and society > England > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: George Bernard Shaw: revolutionary playwright
Previsions of the Superman in the coming age of will: the quintessence of Ibsenism
Utopia in flames: Shaw and Wagner's Ring: the perfect Wagnerite
From hell to heaven: creative evolution and the drive towards the military-industrial-religious complex: Man and superman, John Bull's other island, Major Barbara
Shaw's modern utopia: Back to Methuselah
Shaw's totalitarian drama of the thirties; or, Shaw and the dictators: Geneva, The millionairess, The simpleton of the unexpected isles
George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, utopian to the end: farfetched fables
Epilogue.