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003    OCoLC 
005    20200210152300.0 
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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