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008 191209s2020 nyuaf b 001 0 eng d
020 9781643131993
020 1643131990
035 (OCoLC)1134536116
040 TOH|beng|cTOH|dBDX|dWIM|dOCLCF
049 GWVA
082 04 306.7309|223
082 04 306.82|223
100 1 Knox, Clement,|eauthor.
245 10 Seduction :|ba history from the Enlightenment to the
present /|cClement Knox.
250 First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
264 1 New York, Ny :|bPegasus Books, Ltd.,|c2020.
264 4 |c©2020
300 ix, 482 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations ;|c24cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 First published under the title: Strange antics. London :
William Collins, 2020.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 434-472) and
index.
505 0 Rake culture -- The transit of Venus -- An unsentimental
education -- Circling Mary Shelley -- Of Mann and men --
Blood out -- Seduction remains.
520 "A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting
cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of
remarkable women and men throughout history. If sex has
generally been a private matter, seduction has always been
of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-
page tabloid news, the scandal of nineteenth-century
American courts, or the stuff of literature across the
eras, we are fascinated by stories of seduction and sex.
In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox explores
seduction in all its historical and cultural incarnations.
Moving from the Garden of Eden to the carnivals of
eighteenth-century Venice, and from the bawdy world of
Georgian London to the saloons and speakeasies of the Jazz
Age, this is an exploration of timeless themes of power,
desire, and free will. Along the way we meet Mary
Wollstonecraft, her daughter Mary Shelley, and her friend
Caroline Norton, and reckon with their fight for women's
rights and freedoms. We encounter Jack Johnson, the first
black heavyweight champion of the world, who became
entangled in America's labyrinthine and racialized
seduction laws. We discover how tall tales of predatory
vampires, hypnotists, and immigrants were mobilized by
Nazis and nativists to help propel them to power. We
consider how after seduction seemingly vanished from view
during the Sexual Revolution, it exploded back into our
lives as The Game became a multi-million bestseller,
online dating swept the world, and the ongoing male
fascinating with manipulating women was exposed. In a big-
thinking cultural history told through an extraordinary
range of stories and sources, Knox explores how our ideas
about desire and pursuit have developed in step with the
modern world. This is a bold, modern charter of seduction,
from the birth of the Enlightenment to the explosion of
romantic literature and right up to our contemporary
moments of reckoning around "incel" culture and #MeToo."--
Publisher's website.
650 0 Seduction|xHistory.
650 0 Seduction|xSociological aspects.
650 0 Courtship|xHistory.
650 0 Man-woman relationships|xHistory.
650 0 Sex customs|xHistory.
650 0 Sexual attraction|xHistory.
650 0 Man-woman relationships.
650 7 Courtship.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00881873
650 7 Man-woman relationships.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01007080
650 7 Seduction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01111032
650 7 Sex customs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01114306
650 7 Sexual attraction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01114799
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
994 C0|bGWV
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