William Collins, London, 2020. Crease the length of spine, otherwise good secondhand condition.

Looking back from the twenty-first century, Knox observes how the formats of seduction have developed, and how traditional tropes jostle now against our more cynical or liberated views when it comes to victimhood, vulnerability and virtue, and the idea of the seducer as hero, or villain, predator, menace. Covering serious study through brilliant stories anecdotes, Knox gives a living history of seduction, bringing to the surface the class politics, feminist strains, hero narratives, group psychologies, and historical modes of storytelling at play.