| Description |
1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps, portraits |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; PROLOGUE: A ROAD TRIP, A ROAD TRIP!: Manhattan, 2007; 1: GO FOR BROKE: Bracknell, England, 2005; 2: PUT UP YOUR DUKES AND WRITE: New York City, 1940s; 3: RAGGED AND ECSTATIC JOY: Denver, 1940s; 4: A PLANK WHERE ALL THE ANGELS DOVE OFF: San Francisco, 1940s-1960s; 5: ROUGH AND HARD AND EXTREME: Mexico, 1950s-1960s; 6: NOT AKIN TO LUSTFUL THOUGHTS: Europe and Africa, 1950s-1960s; 7: THE PERFECT ECSTASY: Lowell, 1920s to Present; 8: GOLDEN ASH, BLISSFUL EMPTINESS: New England, 1890s-1960s; 9: IT WAS PURE, IN MY HEART: New Jersey and New York, 1920s-1990s. |
| Summary |
Who were the beats? Not the sandle-clad "beatniks" of popular lore but dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, bisexual free lovers, shapers of the future. The beats hung out at Columbia university and cheap Times Square cafeterias, devouring ideas. David Creighton shows how the world has taken up their message. In Ecstasy of the Beats he gives a fresh portrait of Carolyn Cassady, "Queen of the Beats," and of the four major Beat writers. Jack Kerouac's On the Road gave a pattern of adventure to restless youth, Allen Ginsberg donned a prophet's r. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Beats (Persons) -- Biography.
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Beats (Persons) |
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Biographies.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
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20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Creighton, David. Ecstasy of the beats. Toronto : Dundurn Group, ©2007 9781550027341 1550027344 (OCoLC)155849489 |
| ISBN |
9781554881499 (electronic book) |
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1554881498 (electronic book) |
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9781459720466 (electronic book) |
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1459720466 (electronic book) |
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9781550027341 |
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1550027344 |
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