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The flirt's tragedy : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction /
"In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and W.M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, flirting harbors potentially tragic consequences, a perilous game then adapted...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
2002.
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.