The Beats: A Very Short Introduction

by David Sterritt

Book Overview

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 followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time--particularly those involving sex, race, and class--in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199796777
• ISBN13: 9780199796779
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.6" x 6.9"