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The flirt's tragedy

by Kaye, Richard A.,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University Press of Virginia, (Charlottesville :) Physical details: viii, 246 p. : ill.
Subject(s): 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. | Mate selection in literature. | Seduction in literature. | Desire in literature. | Women in literature. | Sex in literature. | Electronic books.
Year: 2002
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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.

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