The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

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
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 16, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 332 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1316635716
• | ISBN-13: 9781316635711