Strange Antics

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When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world.

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When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world.

In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox reassesses our idea of seduction in a narrative that moves from Casanova’s pursuit of pleasure, to America’s racialised seduction laws, to the Nazi propaganda designed to stoke sexual panic, and up to #MeToo.

Modern, big-thinking and enormously entertaining, Knox offers an extraordinary range of stories to chart the many guises of seduction, showing that our ideas about desire, courtship, and power have always developed in step with a changing world.

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Weight 0.38 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 3.4 cm
Book_author

Knox, Clement

Publisher

William Collins

Imprint

William Collins

Cover

Paperback

Pages

416

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

306.7 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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