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.

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.

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.