{"product_id":"9783319484419","title":"Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBernard Shaw and His Contemporaries\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eGahan, Peter\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates how, alongside Beatrice Webb’s ground-breaking pre-World War One anti-poverty campaigns, George Bernard Shaw helped launch the public debate about the relationship between equality, redistribution and democracy in a developed economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ten years following his great 1905 play on poverty \u003ci\u003eMajor Barbara\u003c\/i\u003e present a puzzle to Shaw scholars, who have hitherto failed to appreciate both the centrality of the idea of equality in major plays like \u003ci\u003eGetting \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarried,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMisalliance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/i\u003e, and to understand that his major political work, 1928’s \u003ci\u003eThe Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e had its roots in this period before the Great War. As both the era’s leading dramatist and leader of the Fabian Society, Shaw proposed his radical postulate of equal incomes as a solution to those twin scourges of a modern industrial society: poverty and inequality. Set against the backdrop of\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eBeatrice Webb’s famous \u003ci\u003eMinority Report \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eof the Royal Commission on the Poor Law 1905-1909 \u003c\/i\u003e– a publication which led to grass-roots campaigns against destitution and eventually the Welfare State\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e– this book considers how Shaw worked with Fabian colleagues, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and H. G. Wells to explore through a series of major lectures, prefaces and plays, the social, economic, political, and even religious implications of human equality as the basis for modern democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2017-03-06\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319484419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-48442-6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 219\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47512804917388,"sku":"9783319484419","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319484419.jpg?v=1775961860","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319484419","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}