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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... empire . Eliot's Others reveal just how conflicted such participation can be . If the emphasis of much recent work is to argue for or against the novelist as an agent of empire , my goal is not to rehabilitate Eliot as a resistor to ...
... empire itself , Theophrastus acts as both outsider and insider , identifying with those who have been per- secuted . The voice's collective " we " is self - critical , and the " glories " of empire are represented as crimes . Moreover ...
... empire with Conrad's Heart of Darkness and other " late Victorian " texts ( 39 ) . 4. D. A. Miller , Narrative and Its Discontents : Problems of Closure in the Tradi- tional Novel ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1981 ) , 122 ...