Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George EliotAlthough George Eliot has long been described as "the novelist of the Midlands," she often brought the outer reaches of the empire home in her work. Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot studies Eliot's problematic, career-long interest in representing racial and ethnic Otherness. |
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... Byron . Recently , readers of George Eliot have begun to argue that the narrative voice does not necessarily ... Byron can only corrupt . The reading of Byron and the development of Byronic characteristics become an important test of ...
... Byron a source of the " rigid discipline " which she both craves and chafes against . More pious than her letters to Martha Jackson , this letter to Maria Lewis nonetheless marks the special significance that Byron held for her . Thrown ...
... Byron and one that should be considered in light of the adolescent Esther Lyon's reading in Felix Holt . Eliot critics may well assume that her mature assessment of Byron is that he was “ re- pugnant , " but it is necessary to examine ...