Strange Antics
- Author Clement Knox
- Narrator Janine Cooper-Marshall
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 6 February 2020
- Run Time 16 hours and 2 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre History, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Social and cultural history.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
u2018Clement Knox has mastered the art of reader seduction with his intriguing and expertly woven web of gripping stories and insights. Strange Antics will hold the reader in its thrallu2019
Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five
u2018Erudite yet engaging u2026 Though ambitious in its scope it is endlessly surprising in the individual stories it unearths. I found this Pandorau2019s box of sexual mores through the ages both thought-provoking and hugely entertainingu2019
Cathy Newman
u2018Big and bold u2026 His history of seduction examines a variety of narratives from scandalous memoirs to legal procedure u2026 Impressive u2026 There is much to praise hereu2019
Sunday Times
u2018A work of narrative nonfiction u00e0 la mode. Each chapter focuses on a single individual u2026 Their lives and work are then used to elucidate the grander historical narrative u2026 A blistering finale, drawing together themes of sexual politics, economics, law and the ordinary human desire for love and companionship into a vision of our present conditionu2019
Times
u2018Seduction is the subject of films and fiction, legal cases and human resources headaches u2013 and yet its history has never been written. Knox rectifies this omission with this absorbing account u2026 Erudite and above all entertainingu2019
Tatler
u2018There is much to enjoy in Clement Knoxu2019s ambitious first work u2026 He writes with passion and insight.u2019
i Newspaper
u2018A capacious new history of seduction u2026 Produces a clutch of vivid biographical portraits and offers a pacey introduction to some canonical texts.u2019
Guardian
u2018Rich history u2026 Full of punchy political insight u2026 Satisfying and interesting u2026 And full of share-worthy anecdotes.u2019
Daily Telegraph
u2018Fascinating u2026Knox is a natural biographer with a flair for unveiling startling anecdotes with evident relish u2026 Exhilaratingu2019
New Statesman
u2018Extensive and entertainingu2019
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