Dark SmilesAlthough 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 Eliots problematic, career long interest in representing racial and ethnic Otherness. Placing Eliots diverse and wide ranging treatment of Otherness in its contemporary context, Alicia Carroll argues that Eliot both engages and resists traditional racial