The Coquette |
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| Author:
| Foster, Hannah W. |
| Editor:
| Davidson, Cathy N. |
| Series title: | Early American Women Writers Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-504239-9 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1987 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $32.95AUD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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Reprinted in its entirety with a new introduction by Cathy N. Davidson, The Coquette, one of the two "best-selling" American novels of the 18th century, tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Courted by two men, then suddenly abandoned when both marry other women, Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) willfully enters into a relationship with one of them and diesgiving birth at a roadside inn....
More DescriptionReprinted in its entirety with a new introduction by Cathy N. Davidson, The Coquette, one of the two "best-selling" American novels of the 18th century, tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Courted by two men, then suddenly abandoned when both marry other women, Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) willfully enters into a relationship with one of them and diesgiving birth at a roadside inn. Wharton emerges in the story as a realistic character, whose dilemma is treated in a serious fashion.