Edward Carpenter : A Life of Liberty and Love

ISBN-13: 9781844674213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 548 str.

Sheila Rowbotham

Opis

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."