Abstract
The following paper discusses the fourth novel by a British writer Alan Hollinghurst, entitled The line of beauty and published in 2004. The novel is set in London at a time of the political reign of Margaret Thatcher. The author of this paper tries to focus on the representations of sexuality and of the British society in the era of Thatcherism that the novel offers. These aspects are analyzed in the light of the texts by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler, among others, which are often referred to as catalysts for many recent developments within Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. The paper thus tries to examine some of the main themes of the novel, such as sexuality, the private/public dichotomy, social class and style by applying some recent theories on these subjects.
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