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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... represented in literature as the subjects of fierce tribal hierarchies . ? It is perhaps be- cause the male Eastern ruler was so easily represented as a " despot " or " tyrant , " who oppressed women in Victorian and Romantic literature ...
... represented in Byron's poem by his displeasure in the British al- liance with the Ottoman Turks over Greece ... representing a home culture that seems to have incorporated Oriental despotism it- self . Like Fedalma , Transome exudes an ...
... represented spiritual revivification and sensual fascination to Byron and Goethe , it represented another opportunity altogether to the pragmatic nineteenth - century indus- trialist— the opportunity to make a fortune . This Harold's ...