UK: William Collins, 2020. Paperback. A tightly bound new softcover in illustrated wraps. 8vo. Clean text and free of marks or underling. Color photos plates, Endnotes. Index. 516 pp.

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ISBN: 9780008285685

Publisher's blurb from back cover, "When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores this question as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world.

In the first history of its kind, Knox charts the many guises of seduction from the Garden of Eden to the world of #MeToo. This is a grand narrative that encompasses Casanova's pursuit of pleasure, the fight for woman's rights waged by early feminists Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Caroline Norton, and the travails of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, hounded for his violation of America's labyrinthine, radicalized seduction laws. Through the rich biographical writing the book also explores the strange worlds of vampires, hypnotists and monsters conjured up by Nazis and xenophobes seeking to stoke social and sexual panic."

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