The Beat Generation
A Beginner's Guide
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2012
168 pages
978-1-78074-130-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Beat Generation were a radical group of American writers whose relaxed, gritty and candid writing inspired generations. In his chronicle of the origins, adventures, and inner workings of the Beat movement, Christopher Gair reveals how it sparked one of the most important revolutions in American literature, influencing everything from bebop to the Beastie Boys.
Reviews / Votes
"The special merit of Christopher Gair's supremely intelligent study is its awareness that the Beats still attract attention for extra literary reasons." * American Studies, Journal of *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
File size
0,36 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78074-130-7 (9781780741307)
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Book
05/2008
Oneworld Publications
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Person
Christopher Gair is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Glasgow. His books include The American Counterculture (2007).
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Challenging 'America': Reinventing the arts in the 1940s
- 2 The birth of Beat
- 3 Beat and the San Francisco renaissance
- 4 Jack Kerouac: 'King of the Beats'
- 5 Other voices
- Conclusion: Legacy of the Beat Generation
- Bibliography
- Index
- Endnotes
