Rowbotham Sheila - Edward Carpenter A Life Of Liberty And Love - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Edward Carpenter A Life Of Liberty And Love
Author(s): Rowbotham Sheila
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844674213
Pages: 574 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2009
Category: Socialism & Left-Of-Centre Democratic Ideologies