All Outputs (32)
Trailing Postmodernism: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith’s NW, and the Metamodern (2018)
Journal Article
This article examines David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) and Zadie Smith's NW (2012) against recent theories of the post-postmodern. It argues that although both texts can be seen to be gesturing towards a reconstructive relationship with the absolu... Read More about Trailing Postmodernism: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Zadie Smith’s NW, and the Metamodern.
The 1950s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (2018)
Book
Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream (2018)
Book Chapter
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.
Seams (performance show, Keele Chapel, June 2018) (2018)
Other
Punk Fiction; Punk in Fiction (2018)
Book Chapter
Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media Teenage Dreams (2018)
Book
This collection explores the representation, articulation and construction of youth subcultures in a range of texts and contexts.
Narratives of trauma and loss in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River and A Distant Shore (2018)
Journal Article
This article argues that trauma is at the heart of Caryl Phillips's fiction with particular reference to two novels, Crossing the River (1993) and A Distant Shore (2003). It assess a number of writiers associated with trauma theory and takes issue wi... Read More about Narratives of trauma and loss in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River and A Distant Shore.
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On: The Politics of Youth in 1950s Fiction (2018)
Book Chapter
Contemporary British Fiction: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism (2017)
Book
This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Marti... Read More about Contemporary British Fiction: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism.
Sebastian Groes, British Fiction of the Sixties: The Making of the Swinging Decade (2017)
Journal Article
Working-Class Writing and the Decline of Class Consciousness (2017)
Book Chapter
The Changingman: Maculinity, Violence and Revenge in Martin Amis's Yellow Dog (2016)
Book Chapter
The Novel Sequence (2016)
Book Chapter
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
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.
Martin Amis (Writers and Their Work) (2015)
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