The Beats: A Literary History

Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they...
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Author: Steven Belletto
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The Beats: A Literary History by Belletto, Steven

The Beats: A Literary History

$79.25

The Beats: A Literary History

$79.25
Author: Steven Belletto
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these authors, but also radiates out to discuss dozens more writers and their works, showing how they all contributed to one of the most far-reaching literary movements of the post-World War II era. Moving from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, this book explores key aesthetic and thematic innovations of the Beat writers, the pervasiveness of the Beatnik caricature, the role of the counterculture in the post-war era, the involvement of women in the Beat project, and the changing face of Beat political engagement during the Vietnam War era.

Author: Steven Belletto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/12/2020
Pages: 476
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781107176683

About the Author
Belletto, Steven: - Steven Belletto is Professor of English at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He is author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (2012), editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (2017) and American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 (2017). He is also co-editor of Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (with Joseph Keith, 2019) and American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment (with Daniel Grausam, 2012). He is currently editor for the journal Contemporary Literature.

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