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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... humanity . " The twenty - eight - year - old Mary Ann Evans's candid letter blithely classifies races into levels of fitness even while it speaks frankly about the role racial “ fusion , " or intermar- riage , plays in building a ...
... human being . As in Othello , here whiteness is not necessarily nondesiring nor virtu- ous . As Gwendolen's eyes ... humanity rather than frigidity . Nonetheless , the con- trast between Deronda and Gwendolen is exaggerated until Deronda ...
... human trafficking in Victorian London . The Arabian tale assists Eliot in further outlining and evaluating " the limitations within which the struggle to achieve personal legiti- macy goes on for the fathers ' daughters " in late ...