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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... Jewish . Despite the recent advent of the study of race and ethnicity in Vic- torian fiction , no one in the past forty years has examined the rumor , begun halfway through Middlemarch , that Will Ladislaw is of Jewish ancestry . In the ...
... Jewish protagonist with a Muslim Arabian prince is far stranger to us than to her . Walter Scott's Ivanhoe , one of George Eliot's central resources , Orientalizes the Jewish Rebecca through a collection of visual stereo- types : her ...
... Jewish Question , " Yale Journal of Criticism 10 ( spring 1997 ) : 39–61 , Amanda Anderson carefully examines Eliot's study of the Jewish - German historian Leopold Zunz who " undertook a protracted study of Jewish history , literature ...