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In Smitten, Rodney Hessinger examines how the Second Great
Awakening disrupted gender norms across a breadth of denominations.
The displacement and internal migration of Americans created ripe
conditions for religious competition in the North. Hessinger argues
that during this time of religious ferment, religious seekers
could, in turn, play the missionary or the convert. The dynamic of
religious rivalry inexorably led toward sexual and gender
disruption. Contending within an increasingly democratic religious
marketplace, preachers had to court converts in order to flourish.
They won followers through charismatic allure and making
concessions to the desires of the people. Opening their own hearts
to new religious impulses, some religious visionaries offered up
radical dispensations-including new visions of how God wanted them
to reorder sex and gender relations in society. A wide array of
churches, including Methodists, Baptists, Mormons, Shakers,
Catholics, and Perfectionists, joined the fray. Religious
contention and innovation ultimately produced backlash. Charges of
seduction and gender trouble ignited fights within, among, and
against churches. Religious opponents insisted that the newly
converted were smitten with preachers, rather than choosing
churches based on reason and scripture. Such criticisms coalesced
into a broader pan-Protestant rejection of religious enthusiasm.
Smitten reveals the sexual disruptions and subsequent domestication
of religion during the Second Great Awakening.
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.
For the average tourist, the history of Philadelphia can be like a
leisurely carriage ride through Old City. The Liberty Bell.
Independence Hall. Benjamin Franklin. The grooves in the
cobblestone are so familiar, one barely notices the ride. Yet there
are other paths to travel, and the ride can be bumpy. Beyond the
famed founders, other Americans walked the streets of Philadelphia
whose lives were, in their own ways, just as emblematic of the
promises and perils of the new nation. Philadelphia Stories
chronicles twelve of these lives to explore the city's people and
places from the colonial era to the years before the Civil War.
This collective portrait includes men and women, Black and white
Americans, immigrants and native born. If mostly forgotten today,
banker Stephen Girard was one of the wealthiest men ever to have
lived, and his material legacy can be seen by visiting sites such
as Girard College. In a different register, but equally impressive,
were the accomplishments of Sarah Thorn Tyndale. In a few short
years as a widow she made enough money on her porcelain business to
retire to a life as a reformer. Others faced frustration. Take, for
example, Grace Growden Galloway. Born to an important family, she
saw her home invaded and her property confiscated by patriot
forces. Or consider the life of Francis Johnson, a Black bandleader
and composer who often performed at the Musical Fund Hall, which
still stands today. And yet he was barred from joining its Society.
Philadelphia Stories examines their rich lives, as well as those of
others who shaped the city's past. Many of the places inhabited by
these people survive to this day. In the pages of this book and on
the streets of the city, one can visit both the people and places
of Philadelphia's rich history.
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