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

Author: Rodney Hessinger
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.
Series: Early American studies
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : English
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rodney Hessinger
ISBN: 0812238796 9780812238792
OCLC Number: 57965846
Description: 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "Victims at the shrine of Libertinism": gender in the seduction tales of the late eighteenth century -- Victim of seduction or vicious women? Conceptions of the prostitute at the Philadelphia Magdaden Society and beyond -- "The most powerful instrument of college discipline": the University of Pennsylvania and the Advent of meritocracy in the early republic -- Harvesting youth: the competition for souls in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia and beyond -- "The young man's friend": advice manuals and the dangerous journey to self-made manhood -- Private libertines: emergent strategies for the control of male youth in Bourgeois America.
Series Title: Early American studies
Responsibility: Rodney Hessinger.
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