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The Coquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Coquette or, The History of Eliza Wharton is an epistolary novel by Hannah Webster Foster. It was published anonymously in 1797, and did not appear under the author's real name until 1866, 26 y...
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Print source: The coquette; or, The history of Eliza Wharton. A novel: founded on fact. By a lady of Massachusetts. Foster, Hannah Webster, 1759-1840., ...
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"A MELANCHOLY TALE": RHETORIC, FICTION, AND PASSION IN THE COQUETTE from Studies in the Novel provided by Find Articles at BNET ... One can easily read The Coquette, therefore, as an object lesson in the wages of foolish willfulness, with the responsibility for Eliza's downfall resting as much on her shoulders as on Sanford's.
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By silencing Eliza the main characters convert her to their view of society and, eventually, to her own downfall. When Foster wrote The Coquette, language was a major thread in the developing institutions. Literature and history developed together in this time, building all of its foundations on language.
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coeur's American Farmer appears equally true of The Coquette: the ..... himself to be flawed; hastening Eliza's downfall is her lack of even ...
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Nearing the end of Hannah W. Foster’s The Coquette, Eliza Wharton accuses Peter Sanford, her seducer, of destroying her chance at happiness. In this way, the novel serves very literally as a warning to women about the “practice of coquetry” and being seduced.
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For example, one person might speak about the historical issues surrounding Eliza in The Coquette. Another might discuss the moral ramifications of her actions. Yet another might speak about the role of the community of women in Eliza's downfall.
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