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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... cultural constructedness is not otherwise overtly stated . I am assuming that since the publication of Gates's landmark " Race , " Writing , and Difference ( 1986 ) , I am addressing a community that is also aware of the socially , ...
... cultural traditions and ideologies . ” Moreover , as Eliot encountered representations of Otherness through contemporary scientific writ- ings , she engages what Gillian Beer in Darwin's Plots has termed a conflict between her ...
... cultural , and moral universe in Felix Holt is a ruin . A metaphor of cultural ruination , Transome Court stands derelict at the novel's opening , ravaged by time . Transome's ancestral home recalls Childe Harold's " good hall " whose ...