Table of Contents:
  • About this volume / Robert C. Evans
  • Jack Kerouac, On the Road, and the myth of the west / Matt Theado
  • Biography of Jack Kerouac / Robert C. Evans
  • Critical Contexts. Juvenile delinquency in / and Jack Kerouac's On the Road / Robert C. Evans
  • Jack Kerouac's On the Road : A survey of recent criticism / Joyce Ahn
  • Jack Kerouac's On the Road and fears of drug addiction in the 1950s / Robert C. Evans
  • Beats or "brats"? Kerouac's On the Road and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath / Robert C. Evans
  • Critical Readings. Early reviews of Jack Kerouac's On the Road as literature and cultural document / Robert C. Evans
  • The artistry of Kerouac's On the Road : A close reading of a sample paragraph / Lindsay Sears
  • Youth, irresponsibility, the good life and other philosophical aspects of Jack Kerouac's On the Road / Franco Manni
  • Jack Kerouac's On the Road : Key ideas in a key historical moment / Franco Manni
  • Road work ahead, alternate route advised : Jack Kerouac and On the Road's circuitous connection to naturalism / Maichael J. Martin
  • "Joyous alleys full of promise" : Literary memory, artistic ideals, and American manliness in Jack Kerouac's On the Road / Jesse Gipko
  • On the Road with William Saroyan / David Stephen Calonne
  • On the Road with the merry pranksters : Neal Cassady's influence on the psychedelic revolution / S.G. Ellerhoff
  • Jack Kerouac's On the Road : Some important critical perspectives / Eric Sterling
  • The 2012 film of Jack Kerouac's On the Road : A survey of reviews / Jordan Bailey
  • Jack Kerouac's On the Road : Conclusions of the novel and film / Jordan Bailey
  • Appendix : Jack Kerouac's hometown : Photos from the years of his youth.