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400 American Literature Joel Pfister is Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University and the author of six books, including Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis (2016) and Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies (2006). DOI 10.1215/00029831-8267900 The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats. By David Stephen Calonne. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2017. viii, 236 pp. Cloth, $105.00; e-book, $84.00. Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality.ByMary Paniccia Carden. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2018. xvi, 227 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.50; e-book, $75.00. World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature. By Jimmy Fazzino. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press. 2016. 258 pp. Paper, $40.00. Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory. By Hassan Melehy. New York: Bloomsbury. 2016. xiii, 255 pp. Cloth, $94.50; paper, $27.96; e-book, $19.77. Not so long ago, there seemed to be a consensus about what constituted the Beat generation. At its heart lay the triumvirate of Jack Kerouac (the “King of the Beats”), Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, respective authors of the Beat hypercanon, On the Road (1957), “Howl” (1956), and Naked Lunch (1959). Revolving around them was an outer circle of
American Literature – Duke University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2020
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