Description
Book SynopsisHannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition.
Table of ContentsList 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
Anonymous • A modern Coquette's account of herself
Anonymous • 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
Bryan Waterman • The Elizabeth Whitman Paper Trail
William Hill Brown • From The Power of Sympathy
Anonymous • A Pathetick Fragment. By the late unfortunate Miss Whitman
The Nineteenth-Century Legacy
J. Horatio Nichols • From The New England Coquette
William R. Hayden • From Clara Wharton; A Sequel to Eliza Wharton
Anonymous • Tragedy in Tale of Love
Caroline Wells Healey Dall • From The Romance of the Association
Criticism
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg • From Domesticating 'Virtue': Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America
Claire 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 Consequences
Jeffrey 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 Attribution
Hannah Webster Foster: A Chronology
Elizabeth Whitman: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
