"The Cambridge Companion to the Beats" (2017)

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (book, anthology, essays), 2017.
9" x 6" x 0.75", 297 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-1-316-63571-1.

The Cambridge Companion to the Beats, edited by Steven Belletto, as published in softcover [shown] and hardcover by Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England) in 2017.  This is an anthology of essays on the Beat writers, with a seventeen-page chronology of selected Beat literature. Cover art is by Brion Gysin, a 1959 calligraphic work.

Burroughs is referenced in many spots in this volume, but two essays are of particular interest. William Lawlor's "Were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs a Generation?" is at pages 23-36. Oliver Harris' "William S. Burroughs: Beating Postmodernism" is at pages 123-136.

Contents: 

• Brion Gysin: cover art, 1959
• Notes on Contributors
• Chronology
• Steven Belletto: "Introduction: The Beat Half-Century"
• William Lawlor: "Were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs a Generation?"
• Jonah Raskin: "Beatniks, Hippies, Yippies, Feminists, and the Ongoing American Counterculture"
• Regina Weinreich: "Locating a Beat Aesthetic"
• Nancy M. Grace: "The Beats and Literary History: Myths and Realities"
• Erik Mortenson: "Allen Ginsberg and Beat Poetry"
• Steven Belletto: "Five Ways of Being Beat, Circa 1958-59"
• Kurt Hemmer: "Jack Kerouac and the Beat Novel"
• Oliver Harris: "William S. burroughs: Beating Postmodernism"
• Brenda Knight: "Memory Babes: Joyce Johnson and Beat Memoir"
• Hilary Holladay: "Beat Writers and Criticism"
• Ronna C. Johnson: "The Beats and Gender"
• Polina MacKay: "The Beats and Sexuality"
• A. Robert Lee: "The Beats and Race"
• Todd F. Tietchen: "Ethnographies and Networks: On Beat Transnationalism"
• John Whalen-Bridge: "Buddhism and the Beats"
• Kirby Olson: "Beat as Beatific: Gregory Corso's Christian Poetics"
• Michael Hrebeniak: "Jazz and the Beat Generation"
• David Sterritt: "The Beats and Visual Culture" 
• Further Reading
• Index