TY - BOOK AU - Kaye,Richard A. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The flirt's tragedy: desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction AV - PR878.C69 K39 2002 U1 - 823/.809355 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University Press of Virginia KW - Darwin, Charles, KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Courtship in literature KW - 20th century KW - Women and literature KW - English-speaking countries KW - American fiction KW - Man-woman relationships in literature KW - Mate selection in literature KW - Seduction in literature KW - Desire in literature KW - Women in literature KW - Sex in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3443944 ER -