The Flirt's Tragedy : Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaye, Richard A., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence.
Sex in literature.
Women in literature.
Desire in literature.
Seduction in literature.
Mate selection in literature.
Man-woman relationships in literature.
American fiction > History and criticism.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Courtship in literature.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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.

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