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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... Oriental ” heritage , and she used his " theory of races " as a platform for her own.30 She also , in an early letter to John Sibree , reveals her ability to speak like a chillingly dispassionate ethnographer : " Extermination up to a ...
... Oriental " here is as tainted by his identity as an imperialist Eng- lishman is by his participation in “ barbaric ” Oriental custom . Some readers have noted that the issue of reform in Felix Holt con- nects an individual's moral to ...
... Oriental , a very “ li- centious man " ( 182 ) , is both personally and politically suspect . De Barry's condemnation is ironic . Although the English gentry perceive Harold as an Oriental usurper , Eliot's narrator critically ...