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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... narrative par excellence since San- dra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's reading of her representation of women's " entrapment " in the fifth part of their Madwoman in the Attic : The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth - Century Literary ...
... narrative invention . Indeed , Eliot seems to link the problem of origin to literary creativity and the de- velopment of narrative itself , as she does in all her works which de- velop narrative through the search for ethnic origin . As ...
... Narrative and Its Discontents : Problems of Closure in the Tradi- tional Novel ( Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1981 ) , 122 . 5. Jenny Sharpe , Allegories of Empire : The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text ( Minneapolis ...