Coquette and The Boarding School

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.

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• 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