Beat movement: References & Edit History
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Works emphasizing various elements of the Beat movement include John Tytell, Naked Angels: The Lives & Literature of the Beat Generation (1976, reissued as Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, 2006); John Arthur Maynard, Venice West: The Beat Generation in Southern California (1991); Edward Halsey Foster, Understanding the Beats (1992); and John Lardas, The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs (2001). Jonah Raskin, American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation (2004), is a study of Ginsberg’s poem and its broader influence. Bill Morgan, The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation (2010), is by a long-time archivist of the Beats. Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl (eds.), The Transnational Beat Movement (2012), places the Beat movement in a global context.
Women writers are covered in Nancy M. Grace and Ronna Johnson, Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation (2002); and Mary Paniccia Carden, Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality (2018).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: CORE - The Beat Generation: They Were Hipsters Not Beatniks. | Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| Added top questions and a paragraph on women in the movement. | Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Murcia - Ethnicity and Gender in the Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac and the Other Woman (PDF). | Dec 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The Beat Generation: They Were Hipsters Not Beatniks. | Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Trinity - Social Madness in Beat Generation Writing. | Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: UAB Digital Commons - The Birth of the Beat Generation. | Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - The Beat Generation in Social and Cultural Context (PDF). | Dec 29, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science - On the Beat Generation. | Jul 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Virginia Library - The Psychedelic '60s - Beat Generation. | Apr 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - An Introduction to the Beat Poets. | Mar 24, 2021 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 06, 2020 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jan 06, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 06, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 27, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Houston - Engines of Our Ingenuity - The Beat Generation. | Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Literature Network - The Beat Generation. | Feb 20, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Beat Generation. | Apr 22, 2013 | ||
| Added mention of Bill Morgan's The Typewriter Is Holy. | Aug 05, 2010 | ||
| Photographs added. | Jan 30, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | May 21, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |