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Kaye Richard A. <1960-> |
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Titolo |
The flirt's tragedy [[electronic resource] ] : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / / Richard A. Kaye |
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Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2002 |
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1-280-49035-7 |
9786613585585 |
0-8139-2200-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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