Abstract
Depictions of Jews in the Edwardian fiction of Saki (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870–1916) have been overlooked or condemned out-of-hand. Yet what is usually stark anti-semitism in Saki's fiction turns, in ‘The Unrest-Cure’, on its purveyor and audience, satirising anti-Jewish feelings in Munro's bourgeois world. Saki exposes a dark lining in the golden idyll of Edwardian rural England while subverting the Jewish cabal stereotype. But as Munro and Saki blur into a strident, jingoistic voice with the approach of war, there is a return to the unironic, overt anti-semitism of earlier stories, culminating in the reactionary, anti-cosmopolitan attacks of When William Came (1913).
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