The Coquette
ISBN: 9780195042399 | 0195042395
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/19/1987
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The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters - between the heroine and her friends and lovers - it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) wavers between Major Sanford, a charming but insincere man, and the Reverend Boyer, a bore who wants to marry her. When, in her mid-30s, Wharton finds herself suddenly abandoned when both men marry ... MORE
| Introduction | vii | (14) | |||
| Note on the Text | xxi | (1) | |||
| Selected Bibliography | xxii | (2) | |||
| Chronology of Hannah Webster Foster | xxiv | ||||
| Facsimile of the title page from the first edition | ... MORE | (1) | |||
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Cathy N. Davidson, Professor of English at Michigan State University, is author most recently of Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America.
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