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Shaw and the Veil of Print Shaw and the Veil of Print
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The Political Liabilities of the Socialist Novel The Political Liabilities of the Socialist Novel
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Shaw's Unsocial Novelism Shaw's Unsocial Novelism
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Fabian Print and Shavian Socialism Fabian Print and Shavian Socialism
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2 The Black and White Veil: Shaw, Mass Print Culture, and the Antinovel Turn
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Published:January 2013
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on the radical turn against the realist novel at the end of the nineteenth century, which was also a turn against the literary mass market in its most developed mode. Against a broad account of the socialist turn against the novel, it examines George Bernard Shaw's four early novels, which were originally serialized in two 1880s socialist magazines, and his subsequent abandonment of the novelistic form in favor of the radical drama. During his early years in London, Shaw was a relentless contributor to the radical press, including his four novels. In later years he dismissed these “novels of his nonage,” but at the time the works were read and admired by the radical public. The novels' appearance are considered within a context of broad debate about the realist novel within the radical press, and looks at the careers of contemporary radical novelists such as C. Allen Clarke and Margaret Harkness.
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