The road to Brexit : a cultural perspective on British attitudes to Europe / edited by Ina Habermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Habermann, Ina, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union--Great Britain.

European Union.

British--Attitudes.

British.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Europe.

International relations.

Europe.

Europe--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--21st century.

Europe--Foreign public opinion, British.

Public opinion--Great Britain.

Public opinion.

Diplomatic relations.

Physical Description:

xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 pages

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Britain and Europe: political entanglements

1. Not with a bang but a whimper: Brexit in historical perspective / Robert Holland

2. "This is something which we know, in our bones, we cannot do': hopes and fears for a united Europe in Britain after the Second World War / Alisa Miller

3. EU enlargement and the freedom of movement: imagined communities in the Conservative Party's discourse on Europe(1997

2016) / Marlene Herrschaft-Iden

4. The discursive role of Europe in a disunited kingdom / Klaus Stolz

pt. II British discourses of Europe in literature and film

5. Extr'ord'nary people, the Germans': Germans as aliens in post-war British popular culture / Judith Vonbergr

6. `I don't want to be a European': the European Other in British cultural discourse / Menno Spiering

7. The dystopian nightmare of a European superstate: British fiction and the EU / Lisa Bischoff

8. A case for a Green Brexit? Paul Kingsnorth, John Berger and the pros and cons of a sense of place / Christian Schmitt-Kilb

9. Brexit and the Tudor turn: Philippa Gregory's narratives of national grievance / Siobhan O'Connor

pt. III Negotiating borders in British travel writing and memoir

10. Guards of Brexit? Revisiting the cultural significance of the white cliffs of Dover / Melanie Kung

11. From Iron Curtains to Iron Cliffs: British travel writing between East and West / Blanka Blagojevic

12. Fifty years of Unbelonging: a Gibraltarian writer's personal testimonial on the road to Brexit / M.G. Sanchez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526145086

1526145081

OCLC:

1120094106