Orienting Masculinity, Orienting Nation: W. Somerset Maugham's Exotic Fiction

by Philip Joseph Holden

Although their settings span a wide geographical area, from the South Pacific to India, Maugham's exotic short stories, novels, and travelogues all, ultimately, focus on the creation of a masculine British identity. In this first book to address Maugham's fiction in light of recent developments in postcolonial, gender, and cultural theory, Holden argues that Maugham's work can be understood as an attempt to negotiate between two alternative masculine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313298122
• ISBN13: 9780313298127
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.5"