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

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Index Page references to illustrations are in italics adulterous desire, 37–38, 122, 207 n. 11 adultery plots, 32 aestheticism: animal behavior and, 18, 91, 100, 103–6; female choice and, 42, 59– 60, 103–6, 217 n. 9; homoeroticism and, 90, 92, 111; male dress and, 110; nature and, 91–92, 111–12, 180–81; sexual selection and, 42, 46, 85–86, 91–92, 108–17, 167. See also dandies and dandyism Allen, Grant, 95, 112, 115–16 Amelia (Fielding), 40 Ammons, Elizabeth, 227–28 n. 26 Anderson, Beatrice, 70 Andersson, Malte, 216 n. 3 animal behavior, anthropomorphizing of, 89, 91, 100, 103–6, 110, 115–16, 137–38 Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 46 A Rebours (Huysmans), 112 Armstrong, Nancy, 39, 87 Auerbach, Nina, 81 Austen, Jane, 3; C. Brontë and, 68–69; character in, 8, 54 –55, 58, 71; Darwin and, 217 n. 11; Forster and, 184 –85; male coquettes in, 23; plots in, 12; social sphere in, 26, 69, 184. Works: Emma, 42, 77–78, 119, 124 –25, 184, 188, 222 n. 33; Lady Susan, 15–16, 62–65, 67–74; Mans- field Park, 23; Northanger Abbey, 57, 62–71, 74 –77, 79; Persuasion, 34 –35, 185; Pride and Prejudice, 4, 35, 40, 57, 119, 184 bachelors, 116, 156–57, 163–73 Baker, Nicholson, 48 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 3, 10, 33, 55, 173 Balzac, Honoré de, 51, 65 Barish, Jonas, 38 Barrish, Philip, 87–88 Barthes, Roland, 2, 38–39 Batault, Emile, 30 Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, 11–12, 28 Beardsley, Monroe, 34 Beauchamp’s Career (Meredith), 53–54, 93 Beer, Gillian, 41, 87, 90, 93, 97, 112, 123, 222 n. 37 Beerbohm, Max, 12, 44, 95 Benjamin, Walter, 9–11, 28, 154 –55 Bennett, Arnold, 190 Bersani, Leo, 2, 57 Birkhead, Tim, 216 n. 2 Blythe, Ronald, 70 Boone, Joseph Allen, 39– 40 Bourget, Paul, 24 –25, 35 Brontë, Charlotte, 12, 53–55, 58, 68–69, 78–79. Works: Glass Town Saga, 215–16 n. 52; Jane Eyre, 215–16 n. 52; The Professor , 215–16 n. 52; Shirley, 215 n. 37; Villette , 12, 14 –15, 21, 53, 57, 62–69, 74, 79–81 Brontë, Emily, 4, 35, 218 n. 26 Brooks, Peter, 2, 32 Brown, William Hill, 226 n. 17 Buchanan, Robert, 110 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 121 Burns, Edward, 61 Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 54 Butler, Judith, 3, 38 Butler, Marilyn, 70–71, 75 Calder, Jenny, 123 Candida (Shaw), 107–8 Can You Forgive Her? (Trollope), 216 n. 4 Carpenter, Edward, 90, 164, 201 Casta-Rosaz, Fabienne, 20 Castle, Terry, 38, 212 nn. 10–11 chance, 107–8, 148 character, conception of, 8, 43, 53–55, 57, 67, 71, 75, 152–53, 170 Chartreuse de Parme, Le (Stendhal), 37–38 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 19 Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of, 21–22 Chopin, Kate, 166 cities. See urban life Clarissa (Richardson), 40 community. See social sphere conduct books, 20–23, 41, 53–54 Congreve, William, 51, 57–62, 71–72, 75, 80 consciousness. See female consciousness conversation. See linguistic skill Coquette, The (Foster), 159–60 coquettes and coquetry: aristocracy and, 21, 46, 48, 51–56, 62, 64 –65; chance and, 107; danger of, 149–51, 160; disciplining and expulsion of, 56–57, 63, 69, 71; educational function of, 16, 20, 74 –75, 133, 137; linguistic skill and, 22, 60–61, 71, 166; manipulation of time by, 15, 65–66; as plot generators, 38, 56; power of, 19, 57, 61–62, 65; theatrical connections of, 15, 38, 56, 58–62, 71, 75, 83, 190, 212 n. 11. See also flirtation Corydon (Gide), 228 n. 27 courtship plots, 3, 5, 38– 40; disruption of, 16, 151, 156; flirtation plots and, 32; sexual selection and, 85–86, 89, 91, 108, 112, 117, 158 Cranford (Gaskell), 211 n. 64 Culler, A. Dwight, 220 n. 63 Cuomo, Mario, 25 dance metaphors, 128–29, 142, 144 – 47 dandies and dandyism, 42, 86, 92, 100, 120–24, 126, 131–32, 149, 171. See also aestheticism Dangers of Coquetry (Opie), 22, 53 Darnton, Robert, 15 Darwin, Charles: anthropomorphizations in, 18, 89, 91, 100, 103–6, 110, 137–38; Austen and, 217 n. 11; Eliot and, 88, 118, 126, 160, 224 n. 55; happy endings and, 88–89; impact of, 95; plots and, 86–89, 108. Works: The Descent of Man, 41, 46, 84 –119, 136; The Origin of Species, 89, 91, 96, 100, 103, 110, 116, 160; Voyage of the Beagle, 112. See also sexual selection, theory of d’Aubignac, François Hédelin, Abb...