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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... position of “ voluntary exile ” within the very hub of the British empire itself , Theophrastus acts as both outsider and insider , identifying with those who have been per- secuted . The voice's collective " we " is self - critical ...
... position as a near - goddess of moral in- sight , Ruskin's noble vagrant may have " feminist appeal " for , despite her association with domesticity , she critiques the highly visible pas- sivity of Victoria , “ merging political and ...
... position as suitor to the newly endowed Esther , Harold asks for her sympathy : " I am necessar- ily in a painful position for a man who has any feeling . " " At last Harold had stirred the right fibre " ( 541 ) . " Feeling " is , as in ...