The Flirt's Tragedy : Desire Without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction.
Kaye, Richard A.
The Flirt's Tragedy : Desire Without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (257 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fiction and the Poetics of Flirtation -- Chapter 1: Dialectical Desires: The Eighteenth-Century Coquette and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Fictional Character -- Chapter 2: The Flirtation of Species: Darwinian Sexual Selection and Victorian Narrative -- Chapter 3: George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: Flirtation, Female Choice, and the Revision of Darwinian Belief -- Chapter 4: Deadly Deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the Exhaustion of Flirtatious Desire -- Chapter 5: "Acceptable Hints of Infinity": Dissident Desires and the Erotics of Countermodernism -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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.
9780813922003
Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence.
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.
Electronic books.
PR878.C69 -- K39 2002eb
823/.809355
The Flirt's Tragedy : Desire Without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (257 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Fiction and the Poetics of Flirtation -- Chapter 1: Dialectical Desires: The Eighteenth-Century Coquette and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Fictional Character -- Chapter 2: The Flirtation of Species: Darwinian Sexual Selection and Victorian Narrative -- Chapter 3: George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: Flirtation, Female Choice, and the Revision of Darwinian Belief -- Chapter 4: Deadly Deferrals: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gustave Flaubert, and the Exhaustion of Flirtatious Desire -- Chapter 5: "Acceptable Hints of Infinity": Dissident Desires and the Erotics of Countermodernism -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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.
9780813922003
Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence.
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.
Electronic books.
PR878.C69 -- K39 2002eb
823/.809355