Pygmalion and Galatea

Essaka Joshua is a Lecturer in the Department of English, School of Humanities, University of Birmingham, UK.

• Introduction; Beginnings to the nineteenth century; ’Don’t look at J.J. Rousseau’: Pygmalion and the Romantics; Adam’s dream: Post-Romantic renarrations; The Pre-Raphaelite Pygmalion and mid-victorian hellenism; Nineteenth-Century Pygmalion plays: the context of Shaw’s Pygmalion; The twentieth century: towards a conclusion; Appendix 1 The Pygmalion story in dictionaries and handbooks of classical literature; Appendix 2 Bibliography of Pygmalion references.

'This book will be an indispensable resource for further work on the subject, and the chapter [...] on shaw's Pygmalion is an important addition to scholarship on the play.' Australasian Victorian Studies Journal