LEADER 05088nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910787522003321 005 20230609164711.0 010 $a0-8122-0224-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202243 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418363 035 $a(EBL)3442242 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035919 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11662583 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035919 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041147 035 $a(PQKB)10683344 035 $a(OCoLC)654565895 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26836 035 $a(DE-B1597)449082 035 $a(OCoLC)979576177 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202243 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748832 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442242 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418363 100 $a20050217d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSeduced, abandoned, and reborn$b[electronic resource] $evisions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850 /$fRodney Hessinger 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American studies 300 $aBased on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2000. 311 08$a0-8122-3879-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [183]-248) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1 "Victims at the Shrine of Libertinism": Gender in the Seduction Tales of the Late Eighteenth Century --$tChapter 2 Victim of Seduction or Vicious Woman? Conceptions of the Prostitute at the Philadelphia Magdalen Society and Beyond --$tChapter 3 "The Most Powerful Instrument of College Discipline": The University of Pennsylvania and the Advent of Meritocracy in the Early Republic --$tChapter 4 Harvesting Youth: The Competition for Souls in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia and Beyond --$tChapter 5 "The Young Man's Friend": Advice Manuals and the Dangerous Journey to Self-Made Manhood --$tChapter 6 Private Libertines: Emergent Strategies for the Control of Male Youth in Bourgeois America --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aSeduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of seducers in the burgeoning marketplace of early America, from corrupt peers to licentious prostitutes, from pornographic authors to firebrand preachers, these self-proclaimed moral guardians crafted advice and institutions for youth, hoping to guide them safely away from harm and toward success. By penning didactic novels and advice books while building reform institutions and colleges, they sought to lead youth into dutiful behavior. But, thrust into the market themselves, these moral guides were forced to compromise their messages to find a popular audience. Nonetheless, their calls for order did have lasting impact. In urban centers in the Northeast, middle-class Americans became increasingly committed to their notions of chastity, piety, and hard work. Focusing on popular publications and large urban centers, Hessinger draws a portrait of deeply troubled reformers, men and women, who worried incessantly about the vulnerability of youth to the perils of prostitution, promiscuity, misbehavior, and revolt. Benefiting from new insights in cultural history, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn looks at the way the categories of gender, age, and class took rhetorical shape in the early republic. In trying to steer young adults away from danger, these advisors created values that came to define the emerging middle class of urban America. 410 0$aEarly American Studies 606 $aYouth$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aYouth$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aYouth$xBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSocial control$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMoral education$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMiddle class$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMiddle class$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865 607 $aUnited States$xMoral conditions 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 615 0$aYouth$xHistory 615 0$aYouth$xHistory 615 0$aYouth$xBooks and reading$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial control$xHistory. 615 0$aMoral education$xHistory. 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class$xHistory 676 $a305.235/086/220973 700 $aHessinger$b Rodney$01480455 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787522003321 996 $aSeduced, abandoned, and reborn$93697110 997 $aUNINA