Edward Carpenter : a life of liberty and love
Rowbotham, Sheila2009
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Challenging both capitalism and the values of Western civilization, Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This book situates Carpenter's life and thought in relation to the social, aesthetic and intellectual movements of the day. The gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of, among other causes, free love, recycling, nudism, women's suffrage and prison reform, his work anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Sheila Rowbotham's highly acclaimed biography situates Carpenter's life and thought in relation to the social, aesthetic and intellectual movements of his day, and explores his friendships with figures such as Walt Whitman, E.M. Forster, Isadora Duncan and Emma Goldman. Edward Carpenter is a compelling portrait of a man described by contemporaries as a 'weather-vane' for his times.
Main title:
Edward Carpenter : a life of liberty and love / Sheila Rowbotham.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2009.
Collation:
viii, 565 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2008.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781844674213 (pbk)
Dewey class:
303.484092B CAR
LC class:
HN389
Language:
English
Subject:
Carpenter, Edward, 1844-1929Social reformers -- Great Britain -- BiographyPoets, English -- 19th century -- BiographyBiographyBiography & non-fiction proseBiography: historical, political & militaryGay & Lesbian studiesSocialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologiesFeminism & feminist theoryBiography: literary
BRN:
186282