Youth Subcultures in Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

Making a Scene

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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It provides a theoretical underpinning for the analysis of subcultures and scenes in literary fiction, identifying approaches set against key theories from subcultural studies, sociology, and criminology as well as paying close attention to issues of literary form, genre and narrative technique.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-01
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt531 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor315
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031865695

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Nick Bentley is Reader in English Literature at Keele University, UK. He is a leading expert in postwar and contemporary fiction, particularly in the literatures of class and marginalization. He is author of Contemporary British Fiction: A Reader’s Guide to the Essential Criticism (2018); Martin Amis (2015); Contemporary British Fiction (2008); Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (2007); and co-editor of The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (2015), The 1950s: A Decade of British Fiction (2018) and Teenage Dreams: Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media (2018).

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Subcultures in Theory.- Chapter 2: Subcultures in Fiction.- Chapter 3: The Young Ones: Teenagers, Teds and Jazz.- Chapter 4: Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Countercultural Fictions.- Chapter 5: Teenage Kicks: Punk Fiction, Punk in Fiction.- Chapter 6: The Black Album: Old and New Ethnicities.- Chapter 7: Girls Just Want to Have Fun: Gender and Sexuality.- Chapter 8: Life on Mars: Sci-Fi, Dystopian and Alternative Subcultures.