Kaye, Richard A.,  1960- <br/><br/>
The flirt's tragedy  desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction /  [electronic resource] : 
Richard A. Kaye. 
 - Charlottesville :  University Press of Virginia,  2002. 
 - viii, 246 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813922003 (electronic bk.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 --Influence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Courtship in literature.<br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Women and literature--English-speaking countries.<br/>American fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Man-woman relationships in literature.<br/>Mate selection in literature.<br/>Seduction in literature.<br/>Desire in literature.<br/>Women in literature.<br/>Sex in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR878.C69  / K39 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823/.809355