The Kiss in History

by Karen G. Harvey

Book Overview

Writers have previously placed the action of kissing into categories: kisses of love, affection, peace, respect and friendship. Each of the essays in this fascinating book take a single kind of kiss and uses it as an index to the past. For rather than offering a simple history of the kiss, this book is about the kiss in history.

In this collection, an eminent group of cultural historians have explored this subject using an exceptionally wide...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071906595X
• ISBN13: 9780719065958
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"