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CfP Alluvium 8.2: Locating the Centre in Contemporary Literature

Chloe Ashbridge February 10, 2020 No Comments centre Politics public sphere

We invite proposals for our April 2020 issue on the idea of ‘the centre’ in contemporary literature.

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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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