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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... exotic , partly English Deronda . Re- versing and mirroring the traditional role of the exotic in literature , all these characters employ ethnicity as a way of articulating the problem of sexual desire . In Othello , his ethnicity ...
... exotic body Eliot recalls through her allusion to Queen Budoor . Here again , the novel attempts to whitewash the exotic , to cleanse the princess of her sexual desire . As Eliot censors but still implicates the erotic elements of Mirah ...
... exotic properties that complicate her virtue and child- ish innocence . Indeed , the Jewish woman served as a target for Eng- lish fears , allowed a seductive beauty in literature where it is always qualified by exoticism . As such ...