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Seduced, abandoned, and reborn: visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850

By Rodney , Hessinger

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0812238796, 9780812238792
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15209905 bytes)
Series
Early American studies
Pages
1 vol. (255 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm\264
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Contrôle social--États-Unis--Histoire;Éducation mo

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Introduction1. "Victims at the Shrine of Libertinism": Gender in the Seduction Tales of the Late Eighteenth Century2. Victim of Seduction or Vicious Woman? Conceptions of the Prostitute at the Philadelphia Magdalen Society and Beyond3. "The Most Powerful Instrument of College Discipline": The University of Pennsylvania and the Advent of Meritocracy in the Early Republic4. Harvesting Youth: The Competition for Souls in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia and Beyond5. "The Young Man's Friend": Advice Manuals and the Dangerous Journey to Self-Made Manhood6. Private Libertines: Emergent Strategies for the Control of Male Youth in Bourgeois AmericaConclusionBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

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