Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics

by A. Robert Lee

Book Overview

The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. In this new study, A. Robert Lee aims to explore those counter-seams of modern American writing that sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. Specifically, Lee...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415896509
• ISBN13: 9780415896504
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"