Abstract:Thatcherism offered a promise of future prosperity based on unleashing the young male's ambition; simultaneously, its 'Victorian values' sought to retrieve a moral past. Literary depictions of Thatcherism make the child central to a resulting contradiction between imagined moral past and materialistic future. The disappearance of the child recurs in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor (1985), Ian McEwan's The Child in Time (1987), and Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty (2004). These novels satirise how Thatcherism m… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.