1. Briana Johnson Undergraduate Research Day
Bound By Grief: The Role of The Coquette and Charlotte Temple in Early America
Briana Johnson
Undergraduate Research Day

2. America in the 1790s Post-revolutionary jitters: Who will lead us?
What will be the position of women?
How will we defend ourselves without a Navy?
Why are we divided into states? Why not have one undivided nation?

3. Seduction Novel: Seduction by a man Pregnancy Insanity Lonely death
Why?

4. Ideology
Louis Althusser: Ideological State Apparatus: “imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence” (693) So What? Everyone is “always already subjects, and as such constantly practice the rituals of ideological recognition, which guarantee for us that we are indeed concrete, individual, distinguishable and (naturally) irreplaceable subjects” (699).

5. Charlotte Temple

7. Eliza Wharton
Based on Elizabeth Whitman, a woman from a well-to-do family who disappeared. The next her family heard of her, she had died of a fever following childbirth, alone in an inn.
The character Eliza Wharton is spirited, intelligent, and witty.
Readers acknowledge that her fall is inevitable.

8. “This humble stone, in memory of/ ELIZABETH WHITMAN/ Is inscribed by her weeping friends, To whom she endeared herself./
By uncommon tenderness and affection, / Endowed with superior genius and accomplishments,/ She was still more distinguished by humility and benevolence,/
Let Candour throw a veil over her frailties,/ For great was her charity to others./ She lived as an example of calm resignation, /And sustained the last painful scene, /Far from every friend./ Her departure was on the 25th of July, A.D. 1788,/ In the 38th year of her age;/ The tears of strangers watered her grave” (132).
“THIS HUMBLE STONE,/ in memory of/ ELIZA WHARTON,/ 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” (133).

9. Elizabeth Whitman/Eliza Wharton

10. The readers recognize that the novel is calling out for them to
experience grief along with the
narrator.

11. Works Cited Links to Images:
Books:
Rowson, Susanna. Charlotte Temple. Ed. Marion L. Rust. New York: Norton and Company, Print.
Foster, Hannah Webster. The Coquette and The Boarding School. Ed. Jennifer Harris and Bryan Waterman. New York: Norton and Company, Print.
Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” Literary Theory: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Blackwell Publishing, Print.