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This book pairs close readings with a strong overview of the movement and ranges from Women's Beat Writing to African American Beats to the canonical texts, including 'Howl', On the Road and Naked Lunch. A closing chapter maps post-Beat writing and the ways Beat has morphed into new, even postmodern, forms.

Beat literature --- Beats (Persons) --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Literature --- History and cricitism. --- Influence.

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Beat Literature in Europe offers twelve in-depth analyses of how European authors and intellectuals on both sides of the Iron Curtain read, translated and appropriated American Beat literature. The chapters combine textual analysis with discussions on the role Beat had in popular music, art, and different subcultures.The book participates in the transnational turn that has gained in importance during the past years in literary studies, looking at transatlantic connections through the eyes of European authors, artists and intellectuals, and showing how Beat became a cluster of texts, images, and discussions with global scope. At the same time, it provides vivid examples of how national literary fields in Europe evolved during the cold war era.

Beats (Persons) --- Beat literature --- American literature --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Literature --- Beat generation --- Beatniks --- Persons --- Bohemianism --- Influence --- History and criticism --- Appreciation --- History --- Influence. --- History and criticism. --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1960-1969 --- Europe