Reading Saki : The Fiction of H.H. Munro

Gibson, Brian

McFarland & Co Inc（2014/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786479498
• DDC分類 823.912

Full Description

Here is a thorough critical re-examination of the Edwardian master of the darkly humorous short story, Saki (the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, 1870-1916). Saki the satirist constantly rebelled against but depended upon the world of H.H. Munro, the gentleman bachelor. In reassessing the importance of post-Wilde sexuality, anti-suffragist feelings, and attitudes towards Jews and Slavs in Saki's oeuvre, it becomes clear that the fiction of Saki reflects a fervid imperial masculinity in Britain as World War I approached. The tension between rebellious sexual politics and pro-patriarchy, nationalist views in Saki's fiction reflects a time when the old, manly, bourgeois traditions of coming home from work to "the angel of the hearth" and defending King and Country abroad increasingly clashed with new sexual identities, women's agitation for the vote, and the growing presence of non-British Others in the public imagination.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  viii

Preface  1

A Note on the Source Text and on Saki's Uncollected Writings  3

Introduction: Saki's Dependent Dissidence  5

1. "A Furtive Sinister 'Something'": Saki's Camp  27

2. "The Threat": Saki's ­Anti-Auntness, Misogyny and Anti-Suffragettism  91

3. "Cross Currents": Anti-Semitism, Slavic Europe and Britishness in Saki's Fiction  150

Conclusion  197

Appendix A—H. H. Munro's Business Letters to John Lane The Bodley Head Publishing Company, 1911-15  217

Appendix B—H. H. Munro's Letter to the Editor re: Enlistment, Morning Post, Wednesday, August 5, 1914  242

Appendix C—Schematic of the Writing Personas of Hector Hugh Munro  243

Chapter Notes  245

Bibliography  267

Index  277