Edward Carpenter by Sheila Rowbotham

Edward Carpenter by Sheila Rowbotham

Challenging both capitalism and the values of Western civilization, 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, Carpenter's work anticipated the sexual revolution of the 1960s and placed him at the epicenter of the literary culture of his day. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this major new 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, Robert Graves, Oscar Wilde, E.M. Forster, Isadora Duncan and Emma Goldman. Edward Carpenter paints a compelling portrait of a man described by contemporaries as a 'weather-vane' for his times.

"Indispensable.. A lively, readable, and balanced account of the gender wars of one messy century." The Times"

Sheila Rowbotham, who helped start the women's liberation movement in Britain, is known internationally as an historian of feminism and radical social movements. She is the author of the ground-breaking books Women, Resistance and Revolution; Woman's Consciousness, Man's World; and Hidden from History. Her later works include Dreamers of a New Day: and Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Biography.

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ISBN 13	9781844672950
ISBN 10	1844672956
Titel	Edward Carpenter
Autor	Sheila Rowbotham
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Verso Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-10-31
Seitenanzahl	568
Preise	Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Memoir/Biography) 2008
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