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

Title
The flirt's tragedy [electronic resource] : 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
1 online resource (viii, 246 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Flirt's tragedy (Online)
Alternative Title
Flirt's tragedy (Online)
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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2001005899
OCLC
ssj0000071033
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.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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