"You Must Be as Clever as We Think You": Assessing Intelligence in Henry James's The Tragic Muse.
The author explores how intelligence is represented in the works of Henry James an American-born British writer who is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. Presented are a discussion on the epistemological drama staged by the late fiction of James, an analysis of the...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 115; no. 1; pp. 105 - 131 |
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University of Chicago Press
Aug2017
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| Sumario: | The author explores how intelligence is represented in the works of Henry James an American-born British writer who is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. Presented are a discussion on the epistemological drama staged by the late fiction of James, an analysis of the characters in James' novel "The Spoils of Poynton" and an examination of the nineteenth-century genealogy of the concept of intelligence quotient (IQ). |
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