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Intro
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Creative Destruction: Brexit and Britain's Future Past
Killing Children from Thatcherism to Brexit
Creative Destruction
Brexit as Creative Destruction
Brexit Britain's Moving Children
Institutions, the Organic, and Child-Killing
Summary of Chapters
Children, in Theory
The British Case
Chapter 2: Thatcher's Demons and Maggie's Boys: Children and Youth in Thatcherism's Hinterlands
Thatcherism and the End of the Postwar Future
Horror Children
Early Postwar Horror Children
The World My Wilderness (1950), The Destructors (1954) and Lord of the Flies (1954)
Dangerous Postwar Children and Theory
Progressive Britain's Horror Children
The Wicker Man (1973) and Don't Look Now (1973)
Dangerous Youth: Thatcherism between the Child and the Young Man
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Dangerous Children and Youth in Literary Responses to Thatcherism
The Great Fire of London (1982) and Hawksmoor (1985)
The Fifth Child (1988)
The Swimming Pool Library (1988) and The Line of Beauty (2004)
Looking Back from Post-Thatcherism: The Little Stranger (2009)
Specters of Thatcherism
The Intensive Materialism of The Little Stranger
The Historic House and the Postwar Institution
Thatcherism's Demons: Postwar Children and Youth
Chapter 3: Boy Kings, Queerness, and Radical Nostalgia
Radicalism, Nostalgia, and Childhood in Thatcher-Era Britain
Derek Jarman
Jarman's Edward II
The Taming of the Child King: From Marlowe to Jarman
Edward III in Marlowe's Play
Between Marlowe and Jarman: A Queer Child and a Dangerous Child
The Dangerous Child in History and Theory
Chapter 4: Abduction and Abuse: Disappearing Children in the 1980s and 1990s
Child Abuse and the 1980s as Cultural Nachträglichkeit
The 1980s, Child Abuse, and Child Abduction
Making Child Abuse (In)visible: The Case of Jimmy Savile
Savile and the Afterlife of 1980s Child Abuse
Blake Morrison, As If (1997)
The Child in Time (1987)
The Good Son (1993)
The Children Act (2014)
McEwan's Children
Conclusions: Child Abuse and Cultural Nachträglichkeit
Chapter 5: Children of Nowhere: Migration and Haunted Futures in Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills
Citizens against the World
Between Futures and Fractured Borders
Institutions, America, and Education
A Pale View of Thatcherism: 1980s Britain and Its Doppelgängers
Killing the Child
Are There Such Things as Schools in America? Children, Institutions, and the Future
After A Pale View: British Institutions and Knowing the Child
Children of Nowhere
Chapter 6: Migrant Children and Mobile Youth in Twenty-First Century British Fiction
Mobile Youth and Migrant Children on the Road to Brexit
Brexit and Mobile Youth: David Szalay, All That Man Is (2016)
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Creative Destruction: Brexit and Britain's Future Past
Killing Children from Thatcherism to Brexit
Creative Destruction
Brexit as Creative Destruction
Brexit Britain's Moving Children
Institutions, the Organic, and Child-Killing
Summary of Chapters
Children, in Theory
The British Case
Chapter 2: Thatcher's Demons and Maggie's Boys: Children and Youth in Thatcherism's Hinterlands
Thatcherism and the End of the Postwar Future
Horror Children
Early Postwar Horror Children
The World My Wilderness (1950), The Destructors (1954) and Lord of the Flies (1954)
Dangerous Postwar Children and Theory
Progressive Britain's Horror Children
The Wicker Man (1973) and Don't Look Now (1973)
Dangerous Youth: Thatcherism between the Child and the Young Man
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Dangerous Children and Youth in Literary Responses to Thatcherism
The Great Fire of London (1982) and Hawksmoor (1985)
The Fifth Child (1988)
The Swimming Pool Library (1988) and The Line of Beauty (2004)
Looking Back from Post-Thatcherism: The Little Stranger (2009)
Specters of Thatcherism
The Intensive Materialism of The Little Stranger
The Historic House and the Postwar Institution
Thatcherism's Demons: Postwar Children and Youth
Chapter 3: Boy Kings, Queerness, and Radical Nostalgia
Radicalism, Nostalgia, and Childhood in Thatcher-Era Britain
Derek Jarman
Jarman's Edward II
The Taming of the Child King: From Marlowe to Jarman
Edward III in Marlowe's Play
Between Marlowe and Jarman: A Queer Child and a Dangerous Child
The Dangerous Child in History and Theory
Chapter 4: Abduction and Abuse: Disappearing Children in the 1980s and 1990s
Child Abuse and the 1980s as Cultural Nachträglichkeit
The 1980s, Child Abuse, and Child Abduction
Making Child Abuse (In)visible: The Case of Jimmy Savile
Savile and the Afterlife of 1980s Child Abuse
Blake Morrison, As If (1997)
The Child in Time (1987)
The Good Son (1993)
The Children Act (2014)
McEwan's Children
Conclusions: Child Abuse and Cultural Nachträglichkeit
Chapter 5: Children of Nowhere: Migration and Haunted Futures in Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills
Citizens against the World
Between Futures and Fractured Borders
Institutions, America, and Education
A Pale View of Thatcherism: 1980s Britain and Its Doppelgängers
Killing the Child
Are There Such Things as Schools in America? Children, Institutions, and the Future
After A Pale View: British Institutions and Knowing the Child
Children of Nowhere
Chapter 6: Migrant Children and Mobile Youth in Twenty-First Century British Fiction
Mobile Youth and Migrant Children on the Road to Brexit
Brexit and Mobile Youth: David Szalay, All That Man Is (2016)