This article reads Jane Austen’s Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette in the context of the shifting British colonial relationship with America. I present the coquettish mother as a historically significant literary figure who embodies the rival claims of Enlightenment liberty and the necessity to control national (re-)production via an exploitative, colonial logic that enables ideological formations of domesticity. My analysis of the socially corrective drive captured in these novels suggests that British anxiety over the loss of the American colonies prompted an urgent and ongoing effort to redefine productivity by obscuring the economic consequences of female sexuality.

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跨大西洋的风骚母亲：苏珊夫人和“风骚”中的性别自由，纪律性和殖民生产力

在英国殖民主义与美国关系不断变化的背景下，本文读了简·奥斯丁的《苏珊夫人》和汉娜·韦伯斯特·福斯特的《风骚》。我以一位具有历史意义的文学人物来介绍这位风骚的母亲，他体现了启蒙自由的对立主张，以及通过剥削性的，殖民主义的逻辑来控制民族（再生产）的必要性，这种逻辑使家庭的意识形态得以形成。我对这些小说中捕捉到的社会矫正驱动力的分析表明，英国人对失去美国殖民地的忧虑促使人们采取了紧急而持续的努力，通过掩盖女性性行为的经济后果来重新定义生产力。