{"product_id":"early-american-women-writers-9780195042399","title":"Early American Women Writers","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Coquette\u003c\/em\u003e tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) wavers between Major Sanford, a charming but insincere man, and the\u003cbr\u003eReverend Boyer, a bore who wants to marry her. When, in her mid-30s, Wharton finds herself suddenly abandoned when both men marry other women, she willfully enters into an adulterous relationship with Sanford and becomes pregnant. Alone and dejected, she dies in childbirth at a roadside inn. Eliza\u003cbr\u003eWharton, whose real-life counterpart was distantly related to Hannah Foster's husband, was one of the first women in American fiction to emerge as a real person facing a dilemma in her life. In her Introduction, Davidson discusses the parallels between Elizabeth Whitman and the fictional Eliza\u003cbr\u003eWharton. She shows the limitations placed on women in the 18th century and the attempts of one woman to rebel against those limitations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hannah W. Foster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.37h x 6.11w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195042399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCathy N. Davidson\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor of English at Michigan State University, is author most recently of \u003cem\u003eRevolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39929236521075,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_48ead4e4-e5bd-4bf7-bca7-d64a6b1d67d9.jpg?v=1647612366","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/early-american-women-writers-9780195042399","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}