{"product_id":"seduced-abandoned-and-reborn-rodney-hessinger-9780812238792","title":"Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 178-185","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeduced, Abandoned, and Reborn\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBenefiting from new insights in cultural history, \u003ci\u003eSeduced, Abandoned, and Reborn\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodney Hessinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812238796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812238792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d","brand":"Rodney Hessinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46232976883967,"sku":"9780812238792","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af0858a6-9799-43bc-a9f1-d04dffe3e8b0.jpg?v=1728991701","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/seduced-abandoned-and-reborn-rodney-hessinger-9780812238792","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}