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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... difference between people and animals . In front of the aristocratic Sir Maximus and Lady De Barry , who have come to learn of his father's candidacy , Harry bites his grandmother . They immediately conclude of “ that savage boy ” that ...
... difference thrown at him . Like Fedalma or Daniel Deronda , he is the more vulnerable for not knowing the full story of his own ori- gin . Ladislaw's information does not clarify his origin but mystifies and opens venues for further ...
... Difference . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1986 . Gilbert , Sandra , and Susan Gubar . The Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth - Century Literary Imagination . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1979 ...