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Author Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Title The flirt's tragedy [electronic resource] : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / Richard A. Kaye.

Imprint Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.

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Description viii, 246 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Dialectical desires: the eighteenth-century coquette and the invention of nineteenth-century fictional character -- The flirtation of species: Darwinian sexual selection and Victorian narrative -- George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: flirtation, female choice and the revision of Darwinian belief -- Deadly deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the exhaustion of flirtatious desire -- "Acceptable hints of infinity": dissident desires and the erotics of countermodernism.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Courtship in literature.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
American fiction -- History and criticism.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Mate selection in literature.
Seduction in literature.
Desire in literature.
Women in literature.
Sex in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0813921007 (acid-free paper)
9780813921006
9780813922003 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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