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The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld Beginners' Guides) by Christopher Gair

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The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide (Oneworld Beginners' Guides) Christopher Gair
Language: English
Page: 192
Format: pdf
ISBN: 1851685421, 9781851685424
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Review

"A comprehensive, lively and supremely approachable introduction to the turbulence and iconoclasm of mid-20th century American writers and their lives." -- Geoff Ward, Dean of Arts at University of London and author of The Writing Of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present

"For Chris Gair, there remains 'no coherent overview of the Beat Generation,' but here it is in a breeze of historical narrative. Gair tells a lively and eloquent story that is superbly deft and engaging." -- Ian F. A. Bell, Professor of American Studies at Keele University

"For its breadth of coverage, including the international impact of the Beats, as well as for the perspecuity of its detailing, this book is both an excellent beginning point and a reference source to be returned to time and again." -- James Williams, Senior Managing Editor of Critical Inquiry

"In this essential study, Professor Gair takes us beyond the cliches of the beatnik and non-conformity to establish how the Beat Generation came out of the political, economic, cultural, and ideological tensions of post-1945 America." -- Scott Lucas, Executive Director of Libertas: The Centre for the Study of US Foreign Policy

"The special merit of Christopher Gair's supremely intelligent study is its awareness that the Beats still attract attention for extra literary reasons." --Journal of American Studies

About the Author

Christopher Gair is a Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is author of The American Counterculture (2007) and Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels: From Naturalism to Nature (1997).