Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn : : Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 178-185 / / Rodney Hessinger.
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 "Victims at the Shrine of Libertinism": Gender in the Seduction Tales of the Late Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 2 Victim of Seduction or Vicious Woman? Conceptions of the Prostitute at the Philadelphia Magdalen Society and Beyond
- Chapter 3 "The Most Powerful Instrument of College Discipline": The University of Pennsylvania and the Advent of Meritocracy in the Early Republic
- Chapter 4 Harvesting Youth: The Competition for Souls in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia and Beyond
- Chapter 5 "The Young Man's Friend": Advice Manuals and the Dangerous Journey to Self-Made Manhood
- Chapter 6 Private Libertines: Emergent Strategies for the Control of Male Youth in Bourgeois America
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments