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This Is the Beat Generation by James Campbell (1999, Book, Illustrated) 
This Is the Beat Generation by James Campbell (1999, Book, Illustrated)
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN-10: 0436204983
ISBN-13: 9780436204982
Product ID: EPID1916825
Description: This history of the beat literary scene shows how a history of mental fragility and criminal activity imbued the beat scene with its tragic and famous hipness. With writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs all enduring...
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Synopsis
This history of the beat literary scene shows how a history of mental fragility and criminal activity imbued the beat scene with its tragic and famous hipness. With writers Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs all enduring stays in both mental hospitals and prisons before their 30th birthdays, the transformation of life experience into literature was a particularly charged one. This study explores the process.

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Publication Date:1999-01-01
Edition Description:Illustrated

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Length:320 pages

Industry Reviews
"The Beat phenomenon, which began in self-referentiality, quickly became a cliche: the Playboy interviews, the drunken talk-show appearances and the Rent-a-Beat services for those hip bourgeois who wanted to give parties that shocked the neighbors. Beat became beatnik. Campbell is best when he is deconstructing the cult of the Beats. He demolishes the myth of a spontaneous, three-day composition of ON THE ROAD, setting out Kerouac's extensive revisions; he is unflinching as he describes Kerouac's racism."
New York Times Book Review (12/09/2001)

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