The Beats : A Literary History
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1316629910
ISBN-13
9781316629918
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 13th, 2025
Print length
480 Pages
Weight
664 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.90 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismLiterature: history and criticismLiterary studies: c 1900 to c 2000Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersLiterary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersLiterary reference worksModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and generalHistoryArchaeologyHistoryArchaeology
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By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will encounter a rich literary history that focuses on text rather than biography. This reframes Beat scholarship around the merits of Beat literary production, rather than the lives of the artists.
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.
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