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From Iliadic Integrity to Post-Machiavellian Spoils: James's The Ambassadors
Philosophy and Literature 47 (1):1-23 (2023)
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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.Other Versions
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