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Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn - Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 178-185 (Hardcover, New)
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Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn - Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 178-185 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Early American Studies
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Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn Visions of Youth in Middle-Class
America, 1780-1850 Rodney Hessinger "Offering keen insight derived
from a wide range of sources, from eighteenth-century literature to
institutional records, "Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn"is important
reading for scholars of gender, youth, and class in the early
republic."--"Journal of the Early Republic" "Politicians,
preachers, and pundits prattle about family values, but this lovely
little book engages our actual experience of the family as those
self-appointed moralists never manage to do. Rodney Hessinger is a
gifted historian who catches compellingly the dilemmas with which
those who meant to regulate the young had to deal and the
strategies they developed to deal with them. "Seduced, Abandoned,
and Reborn" is the real deal. It will reorient our understanding of
family life in the early American republic."--Michael Zuckerman,
University of Pennsylvania ""Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn" is an
important new study of the cultural history of the early republic;
it makes significant contributions to the historical literatures on
gender, sexuality, reform, popular culture, and the middle-class in
early America. It is built upon a solid base of original archival
research, and it offers new perspectives on a wide ranging set of
historical questions. Hessinger's book will have a broad appeal for
students and scholars across a variety of disciplines."--Bruce
Dorsey, author of "Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the
Antebellum City" "An important contribution to our understanding of
antebellum bourgeois culture and the dialectical power plays
enacted by its youth and their elders."--"Pennsylvania Magazine of
History and Biography" "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 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. Rodney Hessinger teaches
history at Hiram College. Early American Studies 2005 264 pages 6 x
9 9 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3879-2 Cloth $55.00s 36.00 ISBN
978-0-8122-0224-3 Ebook $55.00s 36.00 World Rights American History
Short copy: In attempting to steer young adults safely away from
the dangers of market-driven society, reformers in early America
created values that came to define the emerging urban middle class.
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