Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation: W. Somerset Maughams Exotic Fiction (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
by Philip Holden
Category: Literary Criticism

This is the first book to study Maugham in light of recent developments in postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory; arguing that Maugham's work can be understood as an attempt to negotiate between two alternative masculine identities: those of private homosexual and public writer.