Reading Saki

The Fiction of H.H. Munro

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Brian Gibson ISBN: 9781476615325
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: June 23, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Brian Gibson
ISBN: 9781476615325
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: June 23, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English

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.

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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.

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