Richard A Kaye: 1 book
The Flirt's Tragedy
Desire without End in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2002
In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, flirting harbors potentially tragic consequences, a perilous game then adapted by...
