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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... desire for an Other body is palpable , disrup- tive , and ultimately unresolved in moments of acute erotic longing or " primal " identification . Such desires construct a familiar paradigm ; the privileged white author , Barbara Smith ...
... desire . As Deronda sings , so does Eliot's subtext suggest an aching search for both self and a sexual partner . In the terms of Shakespeare's play , a monstrous perversion of desire destroys itself as Othello murders Desdemona . The ...
... desires . Deronda and his story violates our aesthetic expectations because of his desire to dis- place himself continually . Desire then remains abstracted in the realm of suicidal brooding , of thought rather than action . In an at ...