![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addressing how Hollinghurst’s novel reveals the contradictory nature of the Thatcherite urban space, I shall focus on his representation of the Lloyd’s Building in London and of his character MP Gerald Fedden’s domestic spaces in a way that illustrates the complexities of Stuart Hall’s processes of identity as they are formed in and through the spaces of capital. In this chapter I turn to Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Line of Beauty (2004) and Will Self’s Dorian (2002) as they link together, and trouble, the varied representations of space, consumption, and identity that I have focused on throughout my analysis of Thatcherite urban spaces. In the previous chapter I examined the problematic notion in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane of becoming British, in the Thatcherite sense, through the transformation of Nazneen’s domestic space from council-supported prison to a space of commercial production. ![]()
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