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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... Greek Slave's insis- tent naïveté contrasts almost crudely with the sophisticated com- plexities of two such actual people as Mary Ann Evans and John Chapman . Powerful representations of an Other's " desire " for chaste " white ...
... Greek . Buying a Greek wife in Smyrna , Harold Transome participates in the modern desecration of Greek civilization that so infuriated Byron . But the image , made so popular and controversial by Hiram Powers's exhibition of The Greek ...
... Greek Slave , see Joy S. Kasson's " Narratives of the Female Body : The Greek Slave , ” in Reading American Art , ed . Marianne Doezema and Elizabeth Milroy , ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1998 ) 163-189 ; and Jennifer DeVere ...