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OverviewChallenging 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sheila RowbothamPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 16.80cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.953kg ISBN: 9781844672950ISBN 10: 1844672956 Pages: 568 Publication Date: 31 October 2008 Audience: General/trade , General Replaced By: 9781844674213 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsReviewsIndispensable... A lively, readable, and balanced account of the gender wars of one messy century. The Times """Exhaustively researched and resonant in detail. It is a splendid reassessment of a man who was both typical of his own time and light years ahead of it."" Fiona MacCarthy, Guardian ""Indispensable... A lively, readable, and balanced account of the gender wars of one messy century."" The Times ""One of the best political biographies for many years. It is not just a book about the past; it's bursting with ideas that remain relevant to the future of humanity."" Peter Tatchell, Observer Books of the Year ""Sheila Rowbotham has given us not just an account of one remarkable individual's life, but has helped to explain how we evolved into the society we are today."" Martin Pugh, Times Literary Supplement" Author InformationSheila Rowbotham is Professor of Gender and Labour History at the University of Manchester, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her many books include A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century and Promise Of A Dream: Remembering the Sixties. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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