Name: Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors
ISBN: 978-3-031-49603-5

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Lagretta Tallent Lenker ⁰

Lagretta Tallent Lenker
1. Temple Terrace, USA
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Considers the significance of interior authors in the works of Shaw and Woolf
The first full-length study of the two authors to focus on their characters who write
Establishes a basis for further study of the affinities between their respective works

Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)

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Keywords

Bernard Shaw
Virgina Woolf
Modernism
Censorship
Social reform
Fabian Society
Women’s rights
Interior author

About this book

Virginia Woolf and Bernard Shaw may be the odd couple of Twentieth Century modernism. Despite their difference in age (Shaw was twenty-six years older than Woolf), and public demeanor - Shaw sought public attention while Woolf shunned the spotlight - they actively held similar convictions on most of the pressing and controversial issues of the day. This book demonstrates that both engaged in social reform through the Fabian Society; both took public anti-war positions and paid dearly for it; both fought British censorship throughout most of their careers as writers; both sought to strengthen women’s rights; and both endeavored to revolutionize their respective art forms, believing that art could bring about positive social change. The main focus of the book, however, concerns how both also created interior authors - characters who write and who either self-censor their own works or highly publicized messages or are censored by their fellow characters. These fictional authors maybe considered reflections of their creators and their respective milieus and serve to illuminate the satisfactions and torments of each famous author during the writing process.

Authors and Affiliations

Temple Terrace, USA

Lagretta Tallent Lenker

About the author

Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Ph.D., retired from the University of South Florida, University College, USA, where she served as founding director of the Graduate Certificate Program, the Bachelor of General Studies, and other adult and professional programs. She has taught in the USF English Department where she specialized in early modern, modern, late Victorian, and American drama. She has written or edited eight books and numerous articles, primarily on the works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw, including Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw (2001). She was guest editor of SHAW 28: Shaw and War. Five of Lenker’s books were co-edited with Dr. Sara M. Deats and focus on literature and social issues, including Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective (1999).

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Bernard Shaw’s and Virginia Woolf’s Interior Authors
Book Subtitle: Censored and Modern
Authors: Lagretta Tallent Lenker
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49603-5Due: 07 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-49606-6Due: 07 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-49604-2Due: 07 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 242
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

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