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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... Maggie's racial differ- ence . Susan Fraiman has read Maggie's flight to the Gypsy camp as Eliot's flirtation with and then abandonment of the male , colonial bildungsroman plot.42 But the free , indirect discourse that narrates Maggie's ...
... Maggie is very much alone and vul- nerable . She is accompanied instead by terrible disciplinary or outlaw men , characters from her Bible and Pilgrim's Progress , who are jum- bled with secular images of threatening male criminals and ...
... Maggie becomes the " object of such general attention and inquiry and excited so troublesome a curiosity as ... to make her post a very conspicuous one . " In contrast to Maggie , who is , like the many Victorian representations of ...