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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... father's immoral influence . If he is not " a lady's child , " his father is not a gen- tleman's child . Jermyn possesses , like his son and grandson , “ latent savage elements " ( 115 ) . Once unleashed amidst the gentry and char ...
... father's attempt to partner the errant fe- male child with an aristocrat is an ugly business . Mirah " began to feel a horrible dread of this man " whom her father has chosen for her . " He worried me with his attentions , his eyes were ...
... father's commodity and seeks to create , through a new marriage and family , an authentic , uncontaminated love affair , far removed from the sins of her father . Eliot's allusions to the " make - believe " of the Nights suggest that ...