From Iliadic Integrity to Post-Machiavellian Spoils: James's The Ambassadors

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1353/phl.2023.a899675

James Duban, J. M. Duban

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Abstract

Abstract:This study links Homeric and Machiavellian outlooks in Henry James's The Ambassadors. We first relate Lambert Strether's embassy seeking Chad's return to Woollett to what Alexander Pope famously designated the "Embassy to Achilles," i.e., the Achaean effort to induce Achilles's return to battle. Achilles impassionedly rejects the embassy's hypocrisy; he will not be bought. We then find Chad Newsome conspiratorially excluding Strether from the family fortune via intended marriage to Mrs. Newsome. Contrary to Achilles's forthrightness and integrity, Chad and his Parisian circle adopt a post-Machiavellian ethos of deceit as the norm.

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从伊利亚奇式的正直到后马基雅维利式的破坏——詹姆斯的《大使》

摘要:本研究将亨利·詹姆斯的《使节》中的荷马观与马基雅维利观联系起来。我们首先把兰伯特·斯特雷瑟寻求乍得返回伍利特的大使馆与亚历山大·波普著名的“阿喀琉斯大使馆”联系起来，即亚该亚人试图诱使阿喀琉斯重返战场。阿喀琉斯强烈反对大使馆的虚伪;他是不会被收买的。然后我们发现查德·纽瑟姆通过与纽瑟姆夫人的婚姻阴谋地将斯特雷瑟排除在家族财产之外。与阿基里斯的直率和正直相反，乍得和他的巴黎圈子采用了后马基雅维利式的欺骗精神作为规范。

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