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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... prince and his consort , Eliot attempts to give sexual life to her iconlike reformers . The experiment is not entirely successful . Eliot's novel ends with the funereal image of Gwendolen Harleth's vocation as an eternal widow , aided ...
... prince fears that women will prohibit his search for excellence , Deronda knows that a woman's folly has al- ready damaged his future and may have planted a seed of immorality to match her own . Ultimately , Deronda too will reject his ...
Race and Desire in George Eliot Alicia Carroll. prince's vision of women visualizes the lack of female " character ... prince : “ A girl hardly more than eighteen , of low slim figure , with most delicate little face , her dark curls ...