Emerson's Contemporaries and Kerouac's Crowd: A Problem of Self-Location

by Bradley J. Stiles

Writers of the Beat Generation were conscious that they shared thematic and philosophical concerns with writers of the American Renaissance. This study provides the first extended examination of interests held in common by these two groups. The writers studies include Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Baraka.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838639607
• ISBN13: 9780838639603
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 179 Pages