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The coquette
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ISBN: 1283097923 9786613097927 0199770271 9780199770274 0195042395 9780195042399 9781283097925 6613097926 0199840385 9780199840380 Year: 1986 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. 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 Reverend 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

Felicitous space : the imaginative structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
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ISBN: 0807841358 0807816558 Year: 1986 Publisher: Chapel Hill London University of North Carolina Press


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