Title: Reading Saki : the fiction of H.H. Munro /
Authors: Gibson, Brian, 1976-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Saki, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: A note on the source text and on Saki's uncollected writings -- Introduction: Saki's dependent dissidence -- "A furtive sinister 'something'" Saki's camp -- "The threat" Saki's anti-auntness, misogyny and anti-suffragettism -- "Cross currents" anti-semitism, Slavic Europe and Britishness in Saki's fiction -- Conclusion.