The implicit link between white women and "the dark races" recurs
persistently in nineteenth-century English fiction. Imperialism at
Home examines the metaphorical use of race by three
nineteenth-century women novelists: Charlotte Brontë, Emily
Brontë, and George Eliot. Susan Meyer argues that each of these
domestic novelists uses race relations as a metaphor through which
to explore the relationships between men and women at home in
England. In the fiction of, for example, Anthony Trollope and
Charles Dickens, as in nineteenth-century culture more generally,
the subtle and not-so-subtle comparison of white women and people
of color is used to suggest their mutual inferiority. The Bronte
sisters and George Eliot responded to this comparison, Meyer
contends, transforming it for their own purposes. Through this
central metaphor, these women novelists work out a sometimes
contentious relationship to established hierarchies of race and
gender. Their feminist impulses, in combination with their use of
race as a metaphor, Meyer argues, produce at times a surprising, if
partial, critique of empire. Through readings of Jane Eyre,
Wuthering Heights, The Mill on the Floss, Daniel Deronda, and
Charlotte Brontë's African juvenilia, Meyer traces the
aesthetically and ideologically complex workings of the racial
metaphor. Her analysis is supported by careful attention to textual
details and thorough grounding in recent scholarship on the idea of
race, and on literature and imperialism.
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