Nancy Bentley

873 total citations
19 papers, 107 citations indexed

About

Nancy Bentley is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Nancy Bentley has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 107 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Nancy Bentley's work include American and British Literature Analysis (6 papers), Race, History, and American Society (4 papers) and Literature: history, themes, analysis (2 papers). Nancy Bentley is often cited by papers focused on American and British Literature Analysis (6 papers), Race, History, and American Society (4 papers) and Literature: history, themes, analysis (2 papers). Nancy Bentley collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nancy Bentley's co-authors include Sacvan Bercovitch, Susan L. Mizruchi, Walter Benn Michaels and Richard H. Brodhead and has published in prestigious journals such as Critical Inquiry, American Literature and The New England Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Nancy Bentley

10 papers receiving 38 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nancy Bentley United States 7 69 37 20 15 14 19 107
Pauline Hopkins 3 59 0.9× 49 1.3× 19 0.9× 29 1.9× 6 0.4× 4 98
Thadious M. Davis United States 6 56 0.8× 44 1.2× 22 1.1× 25 1.7× 5 0.4× 32 103
Lawrence P. Jackson United States 5 48 0.7× 46 1.2× 25 1.3× 12 0.8× 7 0.5× 10 102
Mary V. Dearborn 5 27 0.4× 29 0.8× 13 0.7× 11 0.7× 8 0.6× 6 80
Leland S. Person United States 7 75 1.1× 21 0.6× 17 0.8× 12 0.8× 23 1.6× 33 121
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 4 36 0.5× 37 1.0× 11 0.6× 9 0.6× 6 0.4× 5 67
James B. Meriwether United States 4 47 0.7× 49 1.3× 29 1.4× 13 0.9× 9 0.6× 19 117
Juliana Spahr United States 7 61 0.9× 24 0.6× 10 0.5× 15 1.0× 8 0.6× 21 100
George Bornstein United States 5 79 1.1× 38 1.0× 16 0.8× 9 0.6× 10 0.7× 30 127
Bill V. Mullen United States 5 23 0.3× 91 2.5× 18 0.9× 26 1.7× 8 0.6× 22 116

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nancy Bentley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nancy Bentley

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Bentley, Nancy. (2023). The Novel, theDemos, and Genres of the Human. American Literary History. 35(1). 53–66.
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Bentley, Nancy. (2022). Amy Kaplan on Realism and the Imperatives of Empire. American Literary Realism. 54(3). 234–237.
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Bentley, Nancy. (2019). Clannishness: Jewett, Zitkala-Ša, and the Secularization of Kinship. American Literary History. 31(2). 161–186. 2 indexed citations
4.
Bentley, Nancy. (2018). Reconstruction and the Cruel Optimism of Citizenship. American Literary History. 30(3). 608–615. 1 indexed citations
5.
Bentley, Nancy. (2016). War on two fronts: Harmonising the public and private enforcement of Australia's corporate disclosure laws. UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney). 1 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (2013). Introduction. 1(1). 147–153. 2 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (2009). Frantic Panoramas. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (2009). Du Bois, Kinlessness, and the Catachrestic Novel. NOVEL A Forum on Fiction. 42(2). 223–230. 2 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (2008). The Fourth Dimension: Kinlessness and African American Narrative. Critical Inquiry. 35(2). 270–292. 15 indexed citations
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Bercovitch, Sacvan, et al.. (2005). The Cambridge History of American Literature. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy, et al.. (1998). The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton. The Yearbook of English Studies. 28. 336–336. 1 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (1997). "Conscious Observation of a Lovely Woman": Jane Campion's Portrait in Film. ˜The œHenry James review. 18(2). 174–179.
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Bentley, Nancy. (1995). The Ethnography of Manners. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (1995). The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James and Wharton. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 27 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (1994). James and the Tribal Discipline of English Kinship. ˜The œHenry James review. 15(2). 127–140. 1 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (1993). White Slaves: The Mulatto Hero in Antebellum Fiction. American Literature. 65(3). 501–501. 12 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy, et al.. (1990). The Inventions of Mark Twain. The New England Quarterly. 63(4). 671–671. 1 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (1990). Slaves and Fauns: Hawthorne and the Uses of Primitivism. ELH. 57(4). 901–901. 12 indexed citations
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Bentley, Nancy. (1988). Contrary dictions : narrative technique and cultural conflict in antebellum American writing. UMI Dissertation Information Service eBooks.

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