Nick Bentley

Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English literature at Keele University in the UK. His main research interests are in post-1945 British fiction and literary and cultural theory. He is author of Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (Peter Lang, 2007) and Contemporary British Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), and editor of British Fiction of the 1990s (Routledge, 2005). He has published journal articles and book chapters on Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Sam Selvon and the representation of youth in British New Left writing. He is currently working on two monographs: one on Martin Amis for the Writers and Their Work series, and one on the representation of youth subcultures in post-war British fiction.