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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... Othello's blackness is only a stepping - off point in the action . Desde- mona's attraction to Othello and defiance of her father create a will- ing link of miscegenation between the threatening , sexual Other and the white figure ...
... Othello , when Daniel sends Gwendolen the token of his handkerchief , he also sends his body , and she responds by feeling " entangled " and " helpless " before his paradoxical attractiveness and rigorous morality . Wrapping her dead ...
... Othello : The New Folger Library Edition ( New York : Washington Square Press , 1993 ) , 1.3.333-34 . 16. Ibid . , 1.3.262-65 , 17. Ibid . , 3.3.293-96 , 291 . 18. Chase , 217 . 19. Newman , 152 , 151 . 20. Othello , 1.1.124–25 . 21 ...