The Flirt's Tragedy: Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction - Hardcover

Kaye, Richard A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813921007 ISBN 13: 9780813921006

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2002

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Book by Kaye Richard A

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"Amusing and absorbing. Richard Kaye's The Flirt's Tragedy brilliantly intuits new ways of reading the importance of flirtation in the history of the English novel. From Jane Austen to E. M. Forster, Kaye proposes, flirtation is not to be understood as a merely stock narrative element nor as a merely dated social convention. It is instead a significant marker of formal transformation in the development of novelistic form." -Robert L. Caserio, Temple University, author of The Novel in England, 1900-1950: History and Theory

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In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and W.M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, flirting harbours potentially tragic consequences, a perilous game then adapted by male flirts in the novels of Oscar Wilde and Henry James. In works by D.H. Lawrence and E.M. Foster, flirtation comes to reshape the modernist representation of homoerotic relations. In this study, Richard Kaye makes a case for flirtation as a unique, neglected species of eros that finds its deepest, most elaborately sustained fulfillment in the 19th century and early 20th century novel. The author examines flirtation in major English, French and American texts to demonstrate how the changing aesthetic of such fiction fastened on flirtatious desire as a paramount subject for distinctly novelistic inquiry. The novel, he argues, accentuated questions of ambiguity on which an erotics of deliberate imprecision thrived.

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• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0813921007
• ISBN 13: 9780813921006
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272