The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt

The Beats: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

David Sterritt

144 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry informative slow-paced
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their fol...

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