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Title: |
The Coquette and The Boarding School |
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| By (author): |
Hannah Webster Foster Edited by: Jennifer Desiderio, Angela Vietto |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551119986 : 9781551119984 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
356 |
| Weight: |
.447 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - July 2011 |
| List Price: |
22.95 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
Qty Available: 11 |
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| Hannah Webster Foster based The Coquette on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, an unmarried woman who died in childbirth in New England. Fictionalizing Whitmanâ s experiences in her heroine, Eliza Wharton, Foster created a compelling narrative of seduction that was hugely successful with readers. The Boarding School, a less widely known work by Foster, is an experimental text, part epistolary novel and part conduct book. Together, the novels explore the realities of womenâ s lives in early America. The critical introduction and appendices to this edition, which explore female friendship and the education of women in the novels, frame Foster as more than a purveyor of the sentimental novel, and re-evaluate her placement in American literary history. |
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