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The Flirt's Tragedy : Desire Without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813922003
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Flirt's TragedyDDC classification:
  • 823/.809355
LOC classification:
  • PR878.C69 -- K39 2002eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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