Emerson's contemporaries and Kerouac's crowd
Subtitle: a problem of self-location
By: Bradley J. Stiles.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Madison, [N.J.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Contemporaries.; Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Friends and associates.; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Self in literature.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Consciousness in literature.; Split self in literature.; Soul in literature.; Beat generation.
Description: "Emerson's Contemporaries and Kerouac's Crowd examines self-location in the works of six authors; Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Baraka. This topic - so crucial in the minds of the writers in both centuries - has received a surprising lack of critical interest. By returning to the philosophical underpinnings of these writers, and by examining what they considered important about what they wrote, Bradley J.

Stiles hopes to correct some popular misreadings of the nineteenth-century writers and provide a new approach to reading the twentieth-century authors by juxtaposing them alongside their predecessors."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-175) and index.