Brexlit

British Literature and the European Project

AvKristian Shaw,Katy Shaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-23
Mått:154 x 232 x 18 mm
Vikt:425 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:21st Century Genre Fiction
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350225817

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Kristian Shaw is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction (2017).

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Brexlit is as much a well-researched book about Britain in Europe (from a political, institutional, economic and social perspective) as an extensive study of British literature and the European project from the mid-twentieth century to the present moment. The detailed developments on history and context are very useful for understanding the motivations for the Leave vote and the background to the novels, short stories, plays and poems examined. The book is a very solid contribution to the emerging field of Brexlit literature.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The European Question1) An Imperfect Union: British Eurosceptic Fictions2) This Blessed Plot: The English Revolt3) The Disunited Kingdom: Politics of Devolution4) Fortress Britain: The Great Immigration Debate5)L’espirit de L’escalier: Post-Brexit FictionsConclusion: Life After EuropeBibliographyIndex