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

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The flirt's tragedy, desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction, Richard A. Kaye
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-240) and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The flirt's tragedy
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bibliography
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Richard A. Kaye
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desire without end in Victorian and Edwardian fiction
Table Of 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
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