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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... East in Byron's foot- steps involved more the acquisition of the poet's old servants than his cultural understanding , he shares in the luxury of the East with- out even the usual Western absorption in its perceived mysticism . For ...
... East . " 20 In this literary exploitation of the East , however , Eliot engages less in redrawing the axioms of imperialism than in challenging them . Harold Transome is not the cheerily unexamined rubber - plantation owner of Mansfield ...
... East " and vo- cation , Daniel Deronda ( 1876 ) is infiltrated by a make - believe exoti- cism.1 Like Goethe's " Hegire " ( 1819 ) , Eliot's last novel alludes to a powerfully regenerative East that can “ disintegrate " the thrones and ...