Details
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Title
Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
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Author
Sheila Rowbotham
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Binding
Hardback
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Edition
1st Edition
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
565
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Verso, London
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Date
2008-10-31
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Illustrated
Yes
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Bookseller's Inventory #
GOR006551697
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ISBN
9781844672950 / 1844672956
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Weight
2.12 lbs (0.96 kg)
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Dimensions
9.24 x 6.52 x 1.96 in (23.47 x 16.56 x 4.98 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Carpenter, Edward, Poets, English - 19th century
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Dewey Decimal Code
B
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From the publisher
Sheila Rowbotham is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities at Manchester University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her many books include the James Tait Black–shortlisted Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love, A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century, Promise Of A Dream: Remembering the Sixties, and Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century. She has written for, among other newspapers, the Guardian, The Times, The Independent, New Statesman, and The New York Times. She lives in Manchester.
Media reviews
“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
“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
“A powerful and entertaining biography of the ‘sexy sage of Sheffield’ ... This absorbing book opens the whole period of early socialism in Britain. And it reads beautifully.”—Jeanette Winterson, Times
“Immensely valuable.”—Colm Tóibín, London Review of Books
“Magnificent ... definitive.”—Tristram Hunt, Observer
“I devoured these 550 pages in a day, longing for more.”—Richard Canning, Independent
“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
“An excellent new biography. Rowbotham masterfully renders Carpenter relevant by writing with authority as well as a humorous intimacy that comes from spending decades studying Carpenter.”—Politics and Culture
About the author
Sheila Rowbotham is Honorary Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities at Manchester University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her many books include the James Tait Black-shortlisted "Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love," "A Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century," "Promise Of A Dream: Remembering the Sixties," and "Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century." She has written for, among other newspapers, the "Guardian, The Times, The Independent, New Statesman," and "The New York Times." She lives in Manchester.
