Strange antics : a history of seduction / Clement Knox.
Strange antics : a history of seduction / Clement Knox.
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London : William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
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G 2020/4118
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English
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516 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Rake culture -- The transit of Venus -- An unsentimental education -- Circling Mary Shelley -- Of Mann and men -- Blood out -- Seduction remains.
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Publisher
London : William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
If sex has generally been agreed 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 heart and soul of the literature across the eras, we are fascinated by stories of temptation and resistance, seduction and sex. In the first...
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Strange antics : a history of seduction / Clement Knox.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/4118
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74VKavGeLMGA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKavGeLMGA
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ISBN
0008285675
9780008285678
DDC
306.7
MMS ID
991024357401102626
