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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... captivity , but Browne's child rewrites the problem of captivity as one held in com- mon in Eastern and Western women's lives . Although I am not sug- gesting an implicit or explicit connection between Eliot's work and Barbary Coast " ...
... captivity , becoming a “ subject under siege " like other subjects of British captivity narratives . Her experience as an Other within both Western and Eastern or African cultures locates the female self as in possession of a ...
... captivity , The Greek Slave ( plate 1 ) , William Harvey's illustration epitomizes the position of the woman subject in nineteenth - century Orientalism . The queen's eyes are downcast in dejection , and the luxury of her surroundings ...