Description
| Product ID: | 9780008285715 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Strange Antics |
| Subtitle: | A History of Seduction |
| Authors: | Author: Clement Knox |
| Page Count: | 528 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, England, Central Europe, English, c 1700 to c 1800, c 2010 to c 2020 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | William Collins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-02-18 |
