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English literature in transition, 1880-1920, 2008-09, Vol.51 (4), p.411-420
Ort / Verlag
Greensboro: ELT Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Weintraub talks about the works and philosophy of playwright George Bernard Shaw, who is believed to have admired Benjamin Disraeli's pragmatism as a politician. Despite his often-radical language, Shaw was never a "government-by-the-people" advocate. Eschewing his early Marxism while claiming that he remained a socialist by conviction, Shaw felt all his life that if ordinary people actually exercised their political instincts, they would inevitably become conservative in their own interests, and that any aspiring "reformer-statesman" had to cultivate that climate by measured change promoted by shrewd stagecraft.