Coquette and The Boarding School

A Norton Critical Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvHannah 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 retained while obvious printer’s errors are corrected. The texts are joined with a detailed introduction to Foster’s legacy and Elizabeth Whitman’s life along with explanatory annotations and a note on the text.“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 to The Coquette. Seven illustrations, including three of Eliza Wharton, are included to enrich the reading experience.“Criticism” brings together nine diverse contemporary interpretations. Contributors include Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Claire C. Pettengill, Julia A. Stern, Gillian Brown, Jeffrey H. Richards, and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, among others.Chronologies of the lives of Hannah Webster Foster and Elizabeth Whitman are included along with a Selected Bibliography.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-12-17
Mått132 x 213 x 25 mm
Vikt443 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNorton Critical Editions
Antal sidor464
FörlagWW Norton & Co
ISBN9780393931679

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Bryan Waterman is Associate Professor of English at New York University. He is the author of The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature and several essays on American literature and culture published in American Literary History, Early American Literature, The William and Mary Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the coeditor, with Cyrus R. K. Patell, of The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York.

List of Illustrations Preface A Note on the Texts The Texts of The Coquette and The Boarding SchoolThe CoquetteThe Boarding SchoolSources and ContextsOn CoquetryAnonymous • A modern Coquette's account of herselfAnonymous • For the Massachusetts Gazette. On CoquetryThe Life and Death of Elizabeth WhitmanThe Letters of Elizabeth Whitman to Joel and Ruth Barlow, 1779–1783Inventory of Whitman's Belongings on Her DeathBryan Waterman • The Elizabeth Whitman Paper TrailWilliam Hill Brown • From The Power of SympathyAnonymous • A Pathetick Fragment. By the late unfortunate Miss WhitmanThe Nineteenth-Century LegacyJ. Horatio Nichols • From The New England CoquetteWilliam R. Hayden • From Clara Wharton; A Sequel to Eliza WhartonAnonymous • Tragedy in Tale of LoveCaroline Wells Healey Dall • From The Romance of the AssociationCriticismCarroll Smith-Rosenberg • From Domesticating 'Virtue': Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young AmericaClaire C. Pettengill • [Female Friendship in Foster’s Novels]Julia A. Stern • [Live Burial and the Tyrannies of Voice in The Coquette]Gillian Brown • From Consent, Coquetry, and ConsequencesJeffrey H. Richards • [Theater, Sexuality, and National Virtue in Foster's Novels]Gwendolyn Audrey Foster • [The Dialogics of Sisterly Advice in The Boarding School]Elizabeth Hewitt • [Foster's Epistolarity]Rodney Hessinger • [Gender in the Seduction Tales of the Late Eighteenth Century]Blevin Shelnutt • The Coquette and Pseudonymous AttributionHannah Webster Foster: A ChronologyElizabeth Whitman: A ChronologySelected Bibliography