Knox, Clement – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:47:54 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Knox, Clement – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Strange Antics https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/strange-antics/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/strange-antics/ 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.

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