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Brexlit : British literature and the European project / Kristian Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shaw, Kristian, author.
- Series:
- 21st century genre fiction series.
- 21st century genre fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2021]
- Summary:
- Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives - that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath. Reading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The European question
- The foundations of the European project, 1945-70
- Belated entry, 1973-92
- Maastricht to referendum, 1992-2016
- Referendum to exit, 2016-2020
- Chapter summaries
- Chapter 1: An imperfect union: British Eurosceptic fictions
- The awkward partner
- Ever closer union
- Chapter 2: This blessed plot: The English revolt
- The English sublime
- Muscular Englishness
- Tales of Brexit past
- Chapter 3: The disunited kingdom: Politics of devolution
- The Welsh disease
- Scotland and the two unions
- Northern Ireland
- English devolution
- Chapter 4: Fortress Britain: The great immigration debate
- Opening the door?
- Closing the door?
- Chapter 5: L'espirit de L'escalier: Post-Brexit fictions
- Post-truth, populism and the culture war
- Mind the gap: London and the rest
- Brocken spectres of the past
- Conclusion: Life after Europe
- Bibliography
- Personal interviews/correspondence
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781350090859
- 1350090859
- OCLC:
- 1257666763
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