Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space

1. Introduction
Kim Duff

2. ‘The Script That Has Been Eradicated from the Street’: Iain Sinclair’s Lights Out for the Territory, Julian Barnes’s England, England, and the Spaces of English Heritage
Kim Duff

3. ‘House Arrest’: Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise, Thatcherite Council Estates, and the New Under Class
Kim Duff

4. Space, Production, and Identity: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette, and Powellite Englishness
Kim Duff

5. The Spaces of the Thatcherite Body: Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty and Will Self’s Dorian
Kim Duff

6. Conclusion: Thatcher in Space, or the Spaces of Thatcher
Kim Duff

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary History