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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... racial or ethnic Other who enters her poetry , short fiction , and novels or essays through allu- sions to or representations of the Gypsy , Jew , " Oriental , " or African.2 The " novelist of the Midlands " constructs her experience of ...
... racial darkness engage an entrenched nineteenth - century habit of racist voyeurism.12 As desire is figured through images of darkness and eth- nic Otherness throughout Eliot's canon , her writings may anticipate the colonialist ...
... racial “ fusion , " or intermar- riage , plays in building a “ common mind of humanity . ” Extermi- nated , diluted , or inbred , the " races " are dispassionately discussed here on a pseudoscientific level that reappears in Eliot's ...