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 culture was made accessible , by experts , to the public through the dissemination of Gypsy " lore , " a ... Spanish Gypsies to Africa with great excitement , par- ticipating in a search for their origin that was clearly meaningful to ...
... Spanish Gypsy may indeed be " hor- rifying , " not just for its exigencies of form , but also for its difficulties in locating a plot beyond those offered by maternalist culture . Abducted from her Gypsy home , raised by Spanish ...
... Spanish Gypsy and in the following two novels , Middle- march and Daniel Deronda , Transome and his cloak of Orientalism is less an interruption of The Spanish Gypsy than a logical step toward that text's Other figure . Like Fedalma ...