The Beats - A Literary History

About the author

Steven Belletto is Professor of English at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. He is author of No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives (2012), editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beats (2017) and American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 (2017). He is also co-editor of Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War (with Joseph Keith, 2019) and American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment (with Daniel Grausam, 2012). He is currently editor for the journal Contemporary Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Belletto Steven
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.10.2025
• EAN: 9781316629918
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62991-8
• Weight: 250 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; History, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Archaeology, Literature: history & criticism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary reference works, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History and Archaeology, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general