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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... Gypsy's poten- tial sensuality . Indeed , when Eliot's girls get alone with the Gypsies , their escape plans can ... Gypsy narratives , the representation of the Gypsy woman's eroticized body . Traveling with Gypsy men , in Victorian ...
... Gypsy life might be embraced by a " truant boy " seeking a muscular faith now gone from Victorian England.19 But in the books of " gypsy - lore " which Eliot owned and annotated , George Borrow's The Zincali , or , An Account of the Gypsies ...
... Gypsy . " The tall , young Gypsy mother is the only woman Maggie physically identifies with throughout the novel . The Gypsies are the first char- acters in the novel , moreover , to refer to her as a “ pretty lady ” ( 172 ) . Reversing ...