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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... English or European that drives narrative forward , engaging problematically with discourses of classification ... English of a certain " club . " 49 As such , racial and ethnic Others might possess a heightened access to “ sense ...
... English sexuality itself . Both Eliot's attraction to “ miscegenation ” and her wariness of it are based on ... English bodies and , ulti- mately , English culture . That comparison inevitably reflects the " civi- lized " self ...
... English . Novels which were important to Eliot were likely to keep English- ness and Otherness entirely separate . This is clear in Ivanhoe's binary representation of Rebecca and Rowena , a representation that epito- mizes the double ...