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Shaw's settings : gardens and libraries / Tony Jason Stafford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stafford, Tony Jason.
- 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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