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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... Victorian everywoman's queenliness often foundered on its antithesis , her near- “ slavery . ” Both discourses can be fashioned around narratives of vagrancy , ab- duction , nobility , and the problem of embodied " freedom " in Eliot's ...
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