The flirt's tragedy [electronic resource] : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / Richard A. Kaye.
Material type: TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002Description: viii, 246 p. : illISBN: 9780813922003 (electronic bk.)Subject(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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.809355 LOC classification: PR878.C69 | K39 2002Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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.
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