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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... marriage and " love " for a political and spiritual vocation . It seems ironic that her plot has re- ceived so much criticism in past and recent scholarship , where Fedalma's rejection of marriage is located as a failure or loss as well ...
... marriage of Esther and Felix . That marriage is marked , finally , more by renunciation than by any embrace of the passion that distances Esther from Transome . It is complicated by the fact that Harold Transome himself has made moral ...
... marriage is not subversive enough.24 D. A. Miller also finds that the novel's " traditional settlement ( marriage , family , career ) is not an adequate solution ... the problem has been to find a settle- ment transcending those ...