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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... voices of her fictional provincial communities . Placing Eliot within the discourses of nineteenth - century imperi- alism or racism is piqued by the complex interpretive experience of reading Eliot's narrative voice itself . Otherness ...
... voice's distance from its subject is caught between its own nationalism and its frustration with the process and fruits of reform . Nostalgic for its own Midlands identity , the narrative voice is also problematically removed from the ...
... voice does not necessarily " identif [ y ] with Felix Holt . " As Robin Sheets suggests , Eliot's identification with her protagonist ought not to be such a given . Eliot's " radical " is , after all , boorish , pedantic , and rigid ...