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

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1. Verfasser:	Kaye, Richard A., 1960-
Körperschaft:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
Schlagworte:	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. Electronic books.
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Inhaltsangabe:

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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