Kaye, Richard A., 1960-
The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / [electronic resource] : Richard A. Kaye. - Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002. - viii, 246 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 --Influence.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Courtship in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
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.
PR878.C69 / K39 2002eb
823/.809355
The flirt's tragedy desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / [electronic resource] : Richard A. Kaye. - Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002. - viii, 246 p. : ill.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 --Influence.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Courtship in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
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.
PR878.C69 / K39 2002eb
823/.809355