Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Beats
- The Cambridge Companion tothe Beats
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs a Generation?
- 2 Beatniks, Hippies, Yippies, Feminists, and the Ongoing American Counterculture
- 3 Locating a Beat Aesthetic
- 4 The Beats and Literary History
- 5 Allen Ginsberg and Beat Poetry
- 6 Five Ways of Being Beat, Circa 1958–59
- 7 Jack Kerouac and the Beat Novel
- 8 William S. Burroughs
- 9 Memory Babes
- 10 Beat Writers and Criticism
- 11 The Beats and Gender
- 12 The Beats and Sexuality
- 13 The Beats and Race
- 14 Ethnographies and Networks
- 15 Buddhism and the Beats
- 16 Beat as Beatific
- 17 Jazz and the Beat Generation
- 18 The Beats and Visual Culture
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
Further Reading
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Beats
- The Cambridge Companion tothe Beats
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs a Generation?
- 2 Beatniks, Hippies, Yippies, Feminists, and the Ongoing American Counterculture
- 3 Locating a Beat Aesthetic
- 4 The Beats and Literary History
- 5 Allen Ginsberg and Beat Poetry
- 6 Five Ways of Being Beat, Circa 1958–59
- 7 Jack Kerouac and the Beat Novel
- 8 William S. Burroughs
- 9 Memory Babes
- 10 Beat Writers and Criticism
- 11 The Beats and Gender
- 12 The Beats and Sexuality
- 13 The Beats and Race
- 14 Ethnographies and Networks
- 15 Buddhism and the Beats
- 16 Beat as Beatific
- 17 Jazz and the Beat Generation
- 18 The Beats and Visual Culture
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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