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The flirt's tragedy : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction

Title: The flirt's tragedy : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / Richard A. Kaye.
Author: Kaye, Richard A., 1960-
Publication: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.

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Description

viii, 246 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) 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.

Call Number

JFE 02-16199

ISBN

0813921007 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2001005899

OCLC

48140569

Author

Kaye, Richard A., 1960-

Title

The flirt's tragedy : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / Richard A. Kaye.

Imprint

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 02-16199

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