The Beats
Subtitle: A Literary Reference
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: November 27, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780786710997
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Modern fiction; Literary; Beat generation; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Reference; American - General; Literary Criticism / Poetry; American literature; 20th century; History and criticism
First sentence: The writers who spawned the multifaceted Beat Generation phenomenon spoke for the disaffiliated youth who were coming of age in the late 1940s and 1950s, an era marked by global warfare, the atomic bomb, mass industrialization, suburban sprawl, decaying spiritual values, and a loss of individual identity.