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A paper which looks at Hannah Foster's novel The Coquette, with regard to the way in which it portrays women and sexual relationships in a pioneer society. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Hannah Fosters novel The Coquette is an important work for a number of
reasons, and gained massive popularity at the time it was written as a result of the way it dealt with social and sexual relationships between men and women. As Marchione
(2002) points out, not only was the reading public attracted to narratives which deal with scandal, the fact that Fosters novel dealt with a real-life situation which was thinly disguised
as fiction gave it added appeal.
However, the novel also had considerable literary merit from a social point of view: it dealt with the position of women in a male-dominated society and looked at
social problems from a pragmatic and candid point of view. The novel is written in the epistolatory form, as a series of letters between the characters, and depicts the life
of Eliza Wharton, whose life ran in many ways contrary to the social and moral principles of the time.
Eliza was unable to decide between her two suitors, the attractive but
unreliable Sanford and the reliable and boring Boyer, and after vacillating between the two found herself abandoned by both, as they married other women. However, she entered into a relationship
with Sanford, as a result of which she became pregnant and eventually died in childbirth, having left Sanford to return to what he insisted was a loveless marriage.
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