All Outputs (18)

Ghost Towns: The Haunting, Deindustrialized Spaces of Ross Raisin's 'Waterline' and Martin Amis's 'Lionel Asbo' (2022)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2022). Ghost Towns: The Haunting, Deindustrialized Spaces of Ross Raisin's 'Waterline' and Martin Amis's 'Lionel Asbo'. In S. Lee (Ed.), Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century British Writing (146--166). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003119425-9

Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream (2018)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2018). Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream. In David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (39-52). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474262132.0008

Nick Bentley This chapter argues that number9dream represents a quest narrative in terms of both content and form. The novel begins by inhabiting the postmodernity of late-twentieth-century Tokyo, a setting in which the main character, Eiji Miyake, s... Read More about Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream.

Punk Fiction; Punk in Fiction (2018)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2018). Punk Fiction; Punk in Fiction. In Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media (41-58). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73189-6_3

From Prog to Punk: Cultural Politics and the Form of the Novel in Jonathan Coe's The Rotters’ Club (2018)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2018). From Prog to Punk: Cultural Politics and the Form of the Novel in Jonathan Coe's The Rotters’ Club. In P. Tew (Ed.), Jonathan Coe: Contemporary British Satire (109--124). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350027701.0013

Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On: The Politics of Youth in 1950s Fiction (2018)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2018). Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On: The Politics of Youth in 1950s Fiction. In The 1950's - A Decade of Modern British Fiction (177--204). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350011540.ch-006

Working-Class Writing and the Decline of Class Consciousness (2017)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2017). Working-Class Writing and the Decline of Class Consciousness. In B. Schoene, & E. Pollard (Eds.), Accelerated Times: British Literature in Transition, Volume 5: 1980-2000. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316344071.011

The Changingman: Maculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog (2016)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2016). The Changingman: Maculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog. In N. Hubble, & P. Tew (Eds.), Beyond the City: Return of the Real London in Contemporary British Fiction (65--82). (1). Continuum. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474217224.ch-004

The Novel Sequence (2016)
Book Chapter
Bentley. (2016). The Novel Sequence. In P. Boxall, & B. Cheyette (Eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940 (258--271). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0017

This chapter examines the novel sequence. The novel sequence has been an important part of British and Irish literary output in the period since 1940, with examples in all the major genres and modes of fiction. The post-Second World War period repres... Read More about The Novel Sequence.

‘I’m an adolescent. And that’s how I’m going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture, 1956-1962 (2016)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2016). ‘I’m an adolescent. And that’s how I’m going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture, 1956-1962. In K. Brazil, D. Sergeant, & T. Sperlinger (Eds.), Doris Lessing and the Forming of History (26--38). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414432.003.0003

The mid-to-late 1950s saw an explosion of youth subcultures in Britain – teenagers, Teddy Boys, jazz fans, hipsters, beatniks, mods and rockers. This range generated a series of moral panics and media fascination. The New Left in particularly were sp... Read More about ‘I’m an adolescent. And that’s how I’m going to stay’: Lessing and Youth Culture, 1956-1962.

Introduction: Fiction of the 2000s: Political Contexts, Seeing the Contemporary, and the End(s) of Postmodernism (2015)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N., Hubble, N., & Wilson, L. (2015). Introduction: Fiction of the 2000s: Political Contexts, Seeing the Contemporary, and the End(s) of Postmodernism. In The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (1--26). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474217217.0006

Re-Writing National Identities in 1990s British (2015)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2015). Re-Writing National Identities in 1990s British. In The 1990s: A decade of Contemporary British Fiction. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474217699.ch-003

Postmodern Revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes , Ballard (2015)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2015). Postmodern Revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes , Ballard. In L. Platt, & S. Upstone (Eds.), Postmodern Literature and Race (211--227). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107337022.018

This chapter examines the way in which postcolonial theory and discourses related to racial identity have impacted on a number of writers concerned with interrogating notions of Englishness in their fiction. It begins by identifying the way in which... Read More about Postmodern Revisions of Englishness: Rushdie, Barnes , Ballard.

Subcultural fictions: Youth subcultures in twenty-first century British fiction. (2015)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2015). Subcultural fictions: Youth subcultures in twenty-first century British fiction. In N. Bentley, N. Hubble, & L. Wilson (Eds.), The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (53--82). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474217217.ch-002

'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remians of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2014)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2014). 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remians of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement. In E. Rousselot (Ed.), Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction (138--159). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137375209_9

The iconic BBC comedy series Dad’s Army set on the home front during the Second World War has over its title credits the song ‘Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?’ performed by Bud Flanagan. This song includes the lines: ‘[w]e are the boys w... Read More about 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding?': The Retrieval of the Second World War in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remians of the Day and Ian McEwan's Atonement.

Postmodern Cities (2014)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2014). Postmodern Cities. In K. McNamara (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature (175--187). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139235617.015

Postmodern cities. 5,000 words. This chapter discusses the two principal strands of the postmodern city novel: texts in which the city is presented as a verbal labyrinth, simulacrum, or technoscape (e. g. the fiction of Auster, Borges, Calvino, Murak... Read More about Postmodern Cities.

Staring at the Rudeboys: The Representation of Youth Subcultures in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani and John King’s Skinheads (2014)
Book Chapter
Bentley. (2014). Staring at the Rudeboys: The Representation of Youth Subcultures in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani and John King’s Skinheads. In Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change (175 - 192 (17)). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Mind and Brain: the Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday (2013)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2013). Mind and Brain: the Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday. In J. Peacock, & T. Lustig (Eds.), The Syndrome Syndrome: Disorders and Diseases in Contemporary Literature (115--129). (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203067314-8

This chapter explores the contrasting representation of trauma in two contemporary British novels: Martin Amis’ Yellow Dog (2003) and Ian McE-wan’s Saturday (2005). The first part focusses on recent debates with respect to the way traumatic experienc... Read More about Mind and Brain: the Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday.

Graffiti Representations of Subcultural Identity: A photo-essay of Spanish Urban Street Art in Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. Graffiti Representations of Subcultural Identity: A photo-essay of Spanish Urban Street Art in Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media.