Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 178-185

by Rodney Hessinger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238796
• ISBN13: 9780812238792
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"