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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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| 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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- Youth -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
- Youth -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Youth -- Books and reading -- United States -- History.
- Social control -- United States -- History.
- Moral education -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
- United States -- Moral conditions.
