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Seduced, abandoned, and reborn : visions of youth in middle-class America, 1780-1850 /
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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.