Books by Alicia Carroll

Exploring the early green culture of Arts and Crafts to women's formation of rural utopian communities, to the Women's Land Army and herbalists of the Great War and beyond, New Woman Ecologies shows how women established both their own autonomy and the viability of an ecological modernity.

Although 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 Eliot's problematic, career-long interest in representing racial and ethnic Otherness.