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The flirt's tragedy : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / Richard A. Kaye.
Van Pelt Library PR878.C69 K39 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaye, Richard A., 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Courtship in literature.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.
- Darwin, Charles.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Man-woman relationships in literature.
- Mate selection in literature.
- Seduction in literature.
- Desire in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813921007
- OCLC:
- 48140569
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