The flirt's tragedy : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / Richard A. Kaye.
| Author/creator | Kaye, Richard A., 1960- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002. |
| Description | viii, 246 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001005899 |
| ISBN | 0813921007 (acid-free paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR878.C69 K39 2002 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |