"Forest Beatniks" and "Urban Thoreaus"
Subtitle: Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: February 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780820441597
Subjects: American - General; Influence; Kerouac, Jack; McClure, Michael; Natural history; Snyder, Gary; Thoreau, Henry David; Welch, Lew; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th century; American literature; Environmental protection in literature; History and criticism; Kerouac, Jack,; Nature in literature; Literary Criticism
Description: "The Beat Movement, which first rose to attention in 1955, has often been viewed by critics as an urban phenomenon - the product of a postwar-youth culture with roots in the cities of New York and San Francisco. This study examines another side of the Beat Movement: its strong desire for a reconnection with nature.

Although each took a different path in attaining this goal, the writers considered here - Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Michael McClure - sought a new and closer connection to the natural world. These four writers, along with many of their counterparts in the Beat era, provided a crucial spark that helped to ignite the environmental movement of the 1970s and provided the foundation for the development of the current "Deep Ecology" worldview."--BOOK JACKET.