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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9781844672950 ISBN: 1844672956 Label: Verso Manufacturer: Verso Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 548 Publication Date: December 22, 2008 Publisher: Verso Studio: Verso Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Major new biography of the pioneering advocate of free love, gay rights and women's suffrage. 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. 
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