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Eliza Wharton’s Scraps of Writing: Dissipation and Fragmentation in The Coquette

Eliza Wharton’s Scraps of Writing: Dissipation and Fragmentation in The Coquette Daniel Diez CouCh UCLA Eliza Wharton's Scraps of Writing Dissipation and Fragmentation in The Coquette " ThiS huMBle STone, in MeMoRY oF iS inSCRiBeD BY heR WeePinG FRienDS, To WhoM She enDeaReD heRSelF BY unCoMMon TenDeRneSS anD aFFeCTion. enDoWeD WiTh SuPeRioR aCQuiReMenTS, She WaS STill MoRe DiSTinGuiSheD BY huMiliTY anD BeneVolenCe. leT CanDoR ThRoW a Veil oVeR heR FRailTieS, FoR GReaT WaS heR ChaRiTY To oTheRS. She SuSTaineD The laST PainFul SCene, FaR FRoM eVeRY FRienD; anD eXhiBiTeD an eXaMPle oF CalM ReSiGnaTion. heR DePaRTuRe WaS on The 25Th DaY oF JulY, a.D.-- --, in The 37Th YeaR oF heR aGe, anD The TeaRS oF STRanGeRS WaTeReD heR GRaVe " eliza WhaRTon, The engraved tombstone of Eliza Wharton offers readers of The Coquette a brief moral for her tale of gaiety and seduction. Reproduced in the last letter of Hannah Webster Foster's 1797 epistolary novel, the tombstone closes the narrative with a heavy-handed attempt by Eliza's friends to communicate a final lesson. This record of Eliza's life and death pro{ 683 684 }eaRlY aMeRiCan liTeRaTuRe: VoluMe 4 9, nuMBeR 3 vides narrative, emotional, and instructive closure for one of the most affectively provocative records of seduction in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Eliza Wharton’s Scraps of Writing: Dissipation and Fragmentation in The Coquette

Early American Literature , Volume 49 (3) – Oct 26, 2014
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Daniel Diez CouCh UCLA Eliza Wharton's Scraps of Writing Dissipation and Fragmentation in The Coquette " ThiS huMBle STone, in MeMoRY oF iS inSCRiBeD BY heR WeePinG FRienDS, To WhoM She enDeaReD heRSelF BY unCoMMon TenDeRneSS anD aFFeCTion. enDoWeD WiTh SuPeRioR aCQuiReMenTS, She WaS STill MoRe DiSTinGuiSheD BY huMiliTY anD BeneVolenCe. leT CanDoR ThRoW a Veil oVeR heR FRailTieS, FoR GReaT WaS heR ChaRiTY To oTheRS. She SuSTaineD The laST PainFul SCene, FaR FRoM eVeRY FRienD; anD eXhiBiTeD an eXaMPle oF CalM ReSiGnaTion. heR DePaRTuRe WaS on The 25Th DaY oF JulY, a.D.-- --, in The 37Th YeaR oF heR aGe, anD The TeaRS oF STRanGeRS WaTeReD heR GRaVe " eliza WhaRTon, The engraved tombstone of Eliza Wharton offers readers of The Coquette a brief moral for her tale of gaiety and seduction. Reproduced in the last letter of Hannah Webster Foster's 1797 epistolary novel, the tombstone closes the narrative with a heavy-handed attempt by Eliza's friends to communicate a final lesson. This record of Eliza's life and death pro{ 683 684 }eaRlY aMeRiCan liTeRaTuRe: VoluMe 4 9, nuMBeR 3 vides narrative, emotional, and instructive closure for one of the most affectively provocative records of seduction in the

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