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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... feeling of race , a sense of corporate existence , unique in its intensity " ( 150 ) . In her fiction and poetry as ... feel differently and act differently than Northern Europeans ( ITS , 157 ) .46 Although Theophrastus's quota- tion ...
... feel " as they approached the gates , and ... her husband said , ' Here we are at home ! ' and for the first time kissed her on the lips ” ? Gwendolen " fell silent ... a numbness had come over her personality " ( DD , 405 ) . With her ...
... queens , Caterina Sarti , Maggie Tulliver , and Fedalma of The Spanish Gypsy , all of whom struggle to feel at home in domestic settings that seem anathema to them . TWO “ Dark Smiles " George Eliot and " Gypsydom 28 | DARK SMILES.