Thatcher and After: Margaret Thatcher and Her Afterlife in Contemporary Culture

263 Pages·2010·1.99 MB·English

by  Louisa Hadley

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Contents
List of Figures vii
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6 Shameless?: Picturing the “underclass” after Thatcherism 137
Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi
7 Carving Up Value: The Tragicomic Thatcher Years in
Jonathan Coe 158
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8 Let’s Dance: The Line of Beauty and the Revenant Figure
of Thatcher 180
Kim Duff
9 Sarah Kane: Cool Britannia’s Reluctant Feminist 199
Graham Saunders
10 Parodic Reiterations: Representations of Margaret Thatcher 4
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List of Figures
10.1 P eter Schrank, “His Master’s Voice,” The Independent, May
26, 1997. Source: British Cartoon Archive, University of
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Acknowledgments
In September 2007, Louisa Hadley and Elizabeth Ho attended a
conference hosted by Exeter University and it was there that the idea
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Notes on Contributors
Alexander Beaumont is a doctoral student in the Department of English
and Related Literature at the University of York (UK) where he is com-
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Anita Biressi is Reader in Media Cultures at Roehampton University, ersit
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the Asia Minor Crisis (I. B. Tauris, 2009). She has published articles on the
twentieth-century political, military and cultural history of Greece and
has presented her research at many international conferences.
Louisa Hadley has worked at the University of Edinburgh, UK, Grant
MacEwan College and Concordia, University College of Alberta, Canada,
where she taught a range of literature courses. She is the author of
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