FROM SOLITUDE TO STEWARDSHIP: IN W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Keywords:
W. Somerset Maugham, artist’s vocation, solitudeAbstract
This article reads W. Somerset Maugham’s artist figures as moving from solitude to stewardship—from uncompromising private vocation to ethically charged relations with community. Through narrative distance, moral choice, and institutional pressures (market, criticism, colonial setting), Maugham stages epic scale without romantic consecration, revealing creation as a negotiated responsibility.
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