SOURCE: “Aliens at Home and Britons Abroad: George Eliot's Orientalization of Jews in Daniel Deronda,” in Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity, and Representation, Routledge, 1996, pp. 191-229.
In the following excerpt, Lewis comments on George Eliot's depiction of Daniel Deronda as both an Englishman and a Jew, noting that his characterization within the context of Orientalism brings out the best qualities from both identities.
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