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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... discussion on race and nation . My discussion of that essay will , I hope , clarify — and compli- cate - a reading of Eliot on race by highlighting the work's complex dialogues between a distanced narrative voice and its often estranged ...
... discussion of the rebellion in Jamaica ( 376 ) . Although the rendering of Deronda's actions may affirm the vicious circle Brantlinger describes as " nationalism- imperialism - racism , " the representation of Gwendolen Harleth's cap ...
... discuss the androgyny of Will Ladislaw and of the twin lovers from The Thousand and One Nights , to whom Daniel ... discussion of “ Amos Barton , " Bodenheimer aptly proves this point . Here " the reader is addressed affectionately ...