Professor John McCurdy
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 17 Apr
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But after the war, after the revolution, there is a conservative...
turn in the United States.
And partly this is political.
So they write the U.S.
Constitution, which gives a lot more power to the federal government, takes power away from states and gives the federal government power to do things like tax the Americans so they can pay off their debts from the war.
But there's also sort of a cultural shift that as the United States is becoming a nation to take its place among other world nations, it needs to have a moral code.
And you want to impress upon your children that
that they need to be good Republican citizens.
So don't drink, don't have sex outside of marriage, right?
You need to be moral to create this much better nation.
And so it's interesting.
The first novels that are popular in the United States are seduction novels.
Really?
Yeah, they're mostly ripping off Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela.
But it's Charlotte Temple and The Coquette are two books written and become bestsellers in the 1790s.
And they both tell stories of young women who have been seduced, right?
They're good, innocent, Christian young women.
They meet a very dashing man.
In one case, she meets a British officer who's arrived for the American Revolution and ultimately will give up her virtue.
And then all hell breaks loose.
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