William Hill Brown Hannah Webster Foster Carla Mulford
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown sThe Power of Sympathy(1789) and Foster sThe Coquette(1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country s morality."
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown sThe Power of Sympathy(1789) and Foster sThe Coquette(1797) were two of t...
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 other women, she willfully enters into...
The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written ...
"Sources and Contexts" unearths a wealth of original material about the environment the works were produced in and the real-life people who inspired them. The three sections, "On Coquetry," "The Life and Death of Elizabeth Whitman," and "The Nineteenth-Century Legacy," include new and corrected transcriptions of Whitman's letters to Ruth and Joel Barlow, an inventory of items found at Whitman's room at her death, popular representations of Elizabeth Whitman, and unauthorized sequels toThe Coquette. Seven illustrations, including three of Eliza Wharton, are included to enrich the...
"Sources and Contexts" unearths a wealth of original material about the environment the works were produced in and the real-life people who inspired t...
