All Outputs (3)

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.