Alan Hollinghurst

Issue 2.4 - Special Issue "Thatcher's Legacies" Previous Issues

Margaret Thatcher in the 21st Century

Joseph Brooker July 21, 2013 1 Comment 1980s 80s Alan Hollinghurst anti-Thatcher songs Conservative Party David Peace Eighties fiction GB84 Iain Sinclair Margaret Thatcher Miners' Strike Neo-1980s novel Politics retro Thatcherism The Line of Beauty

Democracy, Franco Moretti once declared, is not interested in the production of good novels (1987: 192). It is not self-evident that parliamentary politics should…

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Issue 2.4 - Special Issue "Thatcher's Legacies" Previous Issues

Gordon Burn and Mrs T

Rhona Gordon July 21, 2013 No Comments 1980s power fashion Alan Hollinghurst Anthony Hope Born Yesterday contemporary literature Damien Hirst Elaine Scarry For the Love of God Gordon Brown Gordon Burn Iron Lady James Graham Madeleine McCann Margaret Thatcher's funeral New Labour Peter Morgan Philip Hensher Richard Schickel The Line of Beauty Tony Blair

One of the strangest, and most recurrent, observations about Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was the number of celebrity mourners, including, but not limited to, Katherine Jenkins, Joan Collins, Jeremy Clarkson, Terry Wogan and Shirley Bassey…

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