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Shaw's settings : gardens and libraries / Tony Jason Stafford.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stafford, Tony Jason.
Contributor:
Dietrich, Richard F., 1936-
Series:
Florida Bernard Shaw series.
Florida Bernard Shaw
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gardens in literature.
Libraries in literature.
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950--Criticism and interpretation.
Shaw, Bernard.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (187 p.)
Place of Publication:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
An exploration of the various ways two settings, gardens and libraries, are used in various ways throughout Bernard Shaw's work.
Contents:
Widowers' houses: "Life here is a perfect idyll"
Mrs. Warren's profession: the walled gardens
Arms and the man: "I took care to let them know that we have a library"
Candida: a wall of bookshelves and the best view of the garden
Man and Superman: books on a garden table
Major Barbara: the Salvation Army's "garden and cusins" books
Misalliance: gardens and books as the means to new dramatic forms
Heartbreak house: "A long garden seat on the west"
Back to Methuselah: the original garden and a library too.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2013).
ISBN:
0-8130-4674-2
0-8130-4855-9
OCLC:
860710714

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