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"My Cleverness, I Assure You, Has Grown Infernal": Playing Stupid with Henry James
2018
Remate de Males
This article reads Henry James's bias against his native America ironically. I offer a two-fold reading of the staging and performance of stupidity: it is both a strategy of resistance and a rhetoric of disavowal of responsibility. I contend that Henry James offers Milly Theale, the American rotagonist of "The Wings of the Dove", the possibility of playing up to European assumptions about the New World through a performance of stupidity. I also argue that feigning ignorance is also renouncing
doi:10.20396/remate.v38i1.8650290
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