The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction /
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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
2002.
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Table of 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.