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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... male God , who with a cloistered Queen of Heaven , expressed in the image of the Madonna , rather than vital goddesses or princesses , sets sexual boundaries . Tom , the juvenile pa- triarch , who is also very much the object of his ...
... male criminals and freaks in one hallucinogenic stream . Apollyon walks with a " highway man with a pistol , and a blinking dwarf in yellow with a mouth from ear to ear . " The devil himself watches her in the shape of a " diabolical ...
... male body in Silas Marner once created a " pallid , undersized ' man isolated amongst full bodied strangers , " now in Middlemarch , the deviant Ladislaw is at once femi- nine and a vital embodied man.12 As Eliot's Orientalizing of ...