03263nam 2200805 a 450 991080624350332120240418044451.01-280-49035-797866135855850-8139-2200-3(CKB)1000000000728694(OCoLC)759159932(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495573(SSID)ssj0000071033(PQKBManifestationID)11109678(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071033(PQKBWorkID)10071381(PQKB)10244798(MiAaPQ)EBC3443944(MdBmJHUP)muse6653(Au-PeEL)EBL3443944(CaPaEBR)ebr10495573(CaONFJC)MIL358558(EXLCZ)99100000000072869420011001d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction /Richard A. Kaye1st ed.Charlottesville University Press of Virginia20021 online resource (257 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-2100-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.The Flirt's Tragedy offers a lively, revisionary, often startling assessment of nineteenth-century fiction that will alter our understanding of the history of the novel.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismCourtship in literatureEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismWomen and literatureEnglish-speaking countriesAmerican fictionHistory and criticismMan-woman relationships in literatureMate selection in literatureSeduction in literatureDesire in literatureWomen in literatureSex in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Courtship in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.Women and literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Man-woman relationships in literature.Mate selection in literature.Seduction in literature.Desire in literature.Women in literature.Sex in literature.823/.809355Kaye Richard A.1960-1708791MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806243503321The flirt's tragedy4098029UNINA