{"product_id":"9781408144664","title":"The Man of Mode","description":"Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the\u003cbr\u003emeasures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves\u003cbr\u003ebeing represented on the Restoration stage. Yet idealisation and\u003cbr\u003esatire, as this edition of Etherege's masterpiece shows, are flip sides\u003cbr\u003eof the same coin, and the play betrays deep anxieties about ridicule\u003cbr\u003eand social failure. Any London beau would emulate Dorimant, the\u003cbr\u003eunconscionable rake who loves 'em and leaves 'em, but he would also\u003cbr\u003esecretly fear that he in fact resembled Sir Fopling Flutter, the model\u003cbr\u003eof all Restoration fops, in his vanity and affectation. The women fare\u003cbr\u003eno better, being offered for identification Dorimant's discarded\u003cbr\u003emistress Loveit, scheming for revenge, or the beautiful but hard-headed\u003cbr\u003eHarriet, who dares Dorimant to woo her in the country, for 'I know all\u003cbr\u003ebeyond Hyde Park is a desert to you and that no gallantry can draw you\u003cbr\u003efarther'.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138141929712,"sku":"9781408144664","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408144664_p0.jpg?v=1763718052","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408144664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}