The flirt's tragedy : desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction / Richard A. Kaye.

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index.
LCCN 2001005899
ISBN0813921007 (acid-free paper)

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