The flirt's tragedy [electronic resource] : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / Richard A. Kaye.
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TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.Description: viii, 246 p. : illSubject(s): - 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
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- PR878.C69 K39 2002eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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