![]() ![]() ![]() 1 Said’s analysis of George Eliot’s final novel is open to criticism in many ways, due to its one-sided condemnation of Eliot as another nineteenth-century representative of the ‘club of empire’, which includes, according to Said, the likes of J. S. Mill, Arnold, Carlyle, Newman, Macaulay, Ruskin, Disraeli, Dickens, Kipling, Conrad, Haggard, and Stevenson. 5 For essays that rather unquestioningly repeat Said's argument see particularly those by Robbins and (.)ġ Edward Said, in his essay ‘Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims’, called Daniel Deronda ‘an exotic young man’ (Said, ‘Zionism’ 120).4 Hardy establishes Deronda as ‘fairly complex in psychological presentation' he is complicated, mov (.). ![]() 3 See also Said, Culture and Imperialism 63: ‘For Disraeli's Tancred and Eliot's Daniel Deronda, the (.).2 Said, ‘Zionism’ 123: ‘Eliot cannot sustain her admiration of Zionism except by seeing it as a metho (.).1 The other most obvious male exotic character in George Eliot's work is, of course, Will Ladislaw in (.). ![]()
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