Publication

2008 - Verso, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

141,250 words, Guess

Page Count

565 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101844672956
  • ISBN-139781844672950
  • Goodreads5505361
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009293210
  • OCLC Control Number227016225
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781844672950
  • Open LibraryOL23083424M

Classifications

  • DDC303.484092
  • DDC335.0092 22
  • LCCPR4451.Z5 R69 2008
and 1 more
  • LCCHN389

Description

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.

Description

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.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography

Other Editions

  • Edward Carpenter: a life of liberty and loveVerso2008-01-01

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