Edward Carpenter
A Life of Liberty and Love
Published on 5. May 2020
574 pages
978-1-78960-505-1 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78960-505-1 (9781789605051)
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Person
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.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1. 'At home I never felt really at home'
- 2. The Cambridge Radical
- 3. Discovering the North
- 4. Becoming a Socialist
- 5. Widening Circles
- 6. Love and Loss
- 7. Political Dilemmas
- 8. Challenging Civilisation
- 9. Utopian Mutations
- 10. Homogenic Love
- 11. A Long Campaign
- 12. Defending Wild Women
- 13. Millthorpe
- 14. Culture and Everyday Life
- Part 2
- 15. Who Shall Command the Heart?
- 16. Body and Spirit
- 17. The Larger Socialism
- 18. New Movements
- New Transitions
- 19. Image and Impact
- 20. Healer of Nations
- 21. Hope Against Hope
- 22. Reconstruction and Revolution?
- 23. Guildford
- 24. Last Years
- 25. Bearing the Memory
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Archives Consulted
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
