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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... girl momentarily quits her own destiny to try on another . " Rambling " with her brother , she evokes Wordsworth's ... girl's trust in her brother is signaled by her willingness to learn from him there , and his excellent woodsmanship is ...
... girl seems to have penetrated or entered into an Other plot , possibly into the literary tradition of Gypsy ... girl's privation , the restriction of her " share . " The sighting of the Gypsy in Eliot's poem can be read as a moment of ...
... girl children to exploit them as prostitutes , Eliot's Gypsies only hope to be compensated for their good deed when they return Maggie to her home . The narrator then creates a clear division between the true nature of the Gypsies and ...