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Contents Acknowledgments vii introduction “Our Present Numerous Race of Coquets” 1 chapter฀one A Prelude: The Novelty of Coquetry 25 chapter฀two The People That Things Make: Coquettes and Consumer Culture 39 chapter฀three The Coquette Here and There: A Cartography of Coquetry 64 chapter฀four Women Who Choose Too Much: Reforming the Coquette 97 chapter฀five A Postlude: The Coquette’s Demise 139 Notes 159 Works Cited 175 Index 185 ...

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