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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... Duke University Press , 1995 ) , 60 . 4. Jennifer DeVere Brody discusses the prevalence of the image of black- ness in Victorian culture and its importance in constructing Englishness as white , masculine , and pure , and Americanness ...
... Duke University Press , 1994 ) , 82-83 . I will return to Behdad's characterization of the English women of the " club ” later in this chapter . 18. Yeğenoğlu , 91. Montagu is quoted in Yeğenoğlu , 91 . 19. Behdad , 84 . 20. Christopher ...
... Duke University Press , 1995 . Rich , Adrienne . " Disloyal to Civilization ' : Feminism , Racism , Gynephobia . " In On Lies , Secrets , and Silence : Selected Prose , 1966-1978 , 275–310 . New York : W. W. Norton & Co. , Inc. , 1979 ...