Beats

A. Robert Lee has taught at the University of Kent in the UK and at Nihon University inJapan. His more than forty book publications include two previously from EdinburghUniversity Press: Multicultural American Literature (2003), which won the AmericanBook Award in 2004, and The Beats: Authorships, Legacies (2019). He has heldvisiting professorships at Bryn Mawr College, Northwestern University, the Universityof Colorado, the University of New Mexico and the University of California, Berkeley.

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Beat Origins and Circuits, 1940s-1960s2. Allen Ginsberg: Public Privacy 3. Jack Kerouac: Road, Jazz, Zen4. Front Row: Insider Beats5. Gallery: Outrider Beats 6. Women Beats7. Afro-Beat8. Inter-Beat. Post-Beat.Selected Criticism Index

One of the striking features of A. Robert Lee’s scholarship has been his persistent reminder that the Beat Generation was about far more than its architects—Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs. Lee has produced an important revision of Beat lore, which now includes the critically neglected contributions of African American authors (Ted Joans, Bob Kaufman), as well as female Beats (Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman). Written with brio and authority, this is a tremendous contribution to Beat Studies.