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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 37
... characters and plots , and troubled represen- tations of " middle - class respectable sexuality . " Eliot is also drawn to both internalizing and externalizing images of Otherness , creating characters who are both " Oriental " and ...
... characters , both the victimized and the victimizing cultures are pun- ished . Imperialism , as it categorizes sexualities , seeks to discipline its own women as it disciplines the outlander or native subject . The em- pire constructs ...
... character " which Eliot cannot : “ with their fingers dyed with henna ; with their hair arranged in plaits ; with their ... characters drift toward each other on the river . Eliot uses the words " uncon- scious " and " half conscious ...