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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... suggests that the critique of empire and Englishness , and the struggle to express desire , begins far earlier in the history of the British novel than was once thought . Interrupting and often fragmenting her novels of vocation ...
... suggests , Eliot's identification with her protagonist ought not to be such a given . Eliot's " radical " is , after all , boorish , pedantic , and rigid . His naive , homespun speeches and ges- tures take place in a novel where ...
... suggests the possibility of the “ casual grafting of ' Jew ' and ' pawnbroker ” into one derogatory racist slur . Ultimately , Beaty is interested in Ladislaw's heritage only insofar as the character may be a precursor to Daniel Deronda ...