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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... reading of Byron . Recently , readers of George Eliot have begun to argue that the narrative voice does not necessarily " identif [ y ] with Felix Holt . " As Robin Sheets suggests , Eliot's identification with her protagonist ought not ...
... reading the first four cantos of Don Juan . But earlier letters reveal a different appreciation of Byron and one that should be considered in light of the adolescent Esther Lyon's reading in Felix Holt . Eliot critics may well assume ...
... reading , Felix discovers her sexuality , and in the act of that discovery , Esther notes Felix's virility , his " massive " build and his " large clear grey eyes and full lips . " Discovering Byron in Esther's workbasket takes on the ...