The Beats, Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 16)
by Ann Charters
The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (2), Dictionary of Literary Biography (16b)
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Contains biographical sketches of American avant-garde writers sharing certain diverse aesthetic and social concerns in the mid-twentieth century, not the least a shared mistrust of the American "virtues" of progress and power after the atomic bomb.Tags
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- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
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