Coquette and the Boarding School

Name: Coquette and the Boarding School
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ISBN: 9780393931679

ISBN-10: 0393931676

ISBN-13: 9780393931679

Edition: 2013

Authors: Hannah Webster Foster, Jennifer Harris, Bryan Waterman

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Published anonymously in 1797, Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette grabbed American interest with its ripped-from-the-headlines story of sex and scandal. A steady best seller for decades, the seduction novel was passed down through generations; indeed, its heroine became better known than the book’s author. A year later, Foster’s lesser-known follow-up, The Boarding School, provided an equally compelling portrait of women at the turn of the nineteenth century in the same epistolary form. Both novels can now be read in conversation with each other in this new Norton Critical Edition based on the respective first edition texts; the author’s original spelling, punctuation, and usage are…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.40" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


A Note on the Texts


The Texts of The Coquette and The Boarding School


The Coquette


The Boarding School


Sources and Contexts


On Coquetry


A modern Coquette's account of herself


For the Massachusetts Gazette. On Coquetry


The Life and Death of Elizabeth Whitman


The Letters of Elizabeth Whitman to Joel and Ruth Barlow, 1779-1783


Inventory of Whitman's Belongings on Her Death


The Elizabeth Whitman Paper Trail



From The Power of Sympathy



A Pathetick Fragment. By the late unfortunate Miss Whitman


The Nineteenth-Century Legacy


From The New England Coquette



From Clara Wharton; A Sequel to Eliza Wharton



Tragedy in Tale of Love


From The Romance of the Association



Criticism


From Domesticating 'Virtue': Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America



[Female Friendship in Foster's Novels]



[Live Burial and the Tyrannies of Voice in The Coquette]



From Consent, Coquetry, and Consequences



[Theater, Sexuality, and National Virtue in Foster's Novels]



[The Dialogics of Sisterly Advice in The Boarding School]



[Foster's Epistolarity]



[Gender in the Seduction Tales of the Late Eighteenth Century]



The Coquette and Pseudonymous Attribution



A Chronology



A Chronology



Selected Bibliography