SOURCE: “The Giaour's Campaign: Desire and the Other in Felix Holt, The Radical,” in Novel, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter, 1997, pp. 237-58.
In the following essay, Carroll discusses George Eliot's characterization of Harold Transome in her novel Felix Holt, asserting that “he is as tainted by his identity as an imperialist Englishman as he is by his participation in barbaric Oriental custom.”
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