The Cambridge Companion to the Beats

The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its most well-known figures are Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, the Beat movement radiates out to encompass a rich diversity of figures and texts that merit further study. Consummate innovators, the Beats had a profound effect not only on the direction of American literature, but also on models of socio-political critique that would become more widespread in the 1960s and beyond. Bringing together the most influential Beat scholars writing today, this Companion provides a comprehensive exploration of the Beat movement, asking critical questions about its associated figures and arguing for their importance to postwar American letters.

Author: Steven Belletto
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/06/2017
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 332
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781316635711