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Autore: | Kaye Richard A. <1960-> |
Titolo: | The flirt's tragedy [[electronic resource] ] : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / / Richard A. Kaye |
Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University Press of Virginia, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823/.809355 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The flirt's tragedy |
ISBN: | 1-280-49035-7 |
9786613585585 | |
0-8139-2200-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454419303321 |
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