Bernard Shaw’s Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect

Stephen Watt is Provost Professor of English and former Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. His most recent books include “Something Dreadful and Grand”: American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious (2015) and Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing (2009).

• 1. Introduction: On Money, Psychology, and Affect in Bernard Shaw’s Writing.- 2. The Materialist Dream Theatre: Affect and Value, Freud and Simmel.- 3. Unashamed: Negative Affect, Money, and Performance in Immaturity and The Irrational Knot.- 4. Entr’acte at the Theatre: Marriage, Money, and Desire in Love Among the Artists.- 5. Cashel Byron’s Blush—and Others.- 6. The Antinomies of An Unsocial Socialist.- 7. Postscript: Embodied Shaws.