Reading Saki

Brian Gibson is a professor of English literature and film at Université Sainte-Anne in Nova Scotia.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiiPreface 1A Note on the Source Text and on Saki’s Uncollected Writings 3Introduction: Saki’s Dependent Dissidence 51. “A Furtive Sinister ‘Something’”: Saki’s Camp 272. “The Threat”: Saki’s ­Anti-Auntness, Misogyny and Anti-Suffragettism 913. “Cross Currents”: Anti-Semitism, Slavic Europe and Britishness in Saki’s Fiction 150Conclusion 197Appendix A—H. H. Munro’s Business Letters to John Lane The Bodley Head Publishing Company, 1911–15 217Appendix B—H. H. Munro’s Letter to the Editor re: Enlistment, Morning Post, Wednesday, August 5, 1914 242Appendix C—Schematic of the Writing Personas of Hector Hugh Munro 243Chapter Notes 245Bibliography 267Index 277

“Gibson’s thorough critical re-examination situates this Edwardian author as deeply vexed...and vexing...commentator on issues of homeland security, anti-suffragist sentiment, class mobility, and the influence of ethnic trespassers.”—Year’s Work in English Studies.