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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... contrast , the reader often encounters a body potentially revivifying in its wildness : Confronted with what seemed to be the enfeeblement of a tough , independent peasantry , the city - based lovers of country life turned to that last ...
... contrast of their col- oring - he with his exquisite outline and rounded fairness , like an Olympian god ; she dark and tiny , like a Gypsy changeling ” ( 146 ) . In contrast to her petite stature , Caterina experiences violent ...
... contrast to Maggie , who is , like the many Victorian representations of white captives on the " threshold " of a major change in her life , Stephen Guest's male luxury and vanity are epitomized by his wearing of a “ scarlet Fez " at ...