Road to Brexit

Introduction: Understanding the past, facing the future - Ina Habermann

Part 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 - Lara Feigel and 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

Part 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 Vonberg
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

Part III Negotiating borders in British travel writing and memoir
10 Guards of Brexit? Revisiting the cultural significance of the white cliffs of Dover - Melanie Kueng
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 -- .

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Brexit; BrexLit; British exceptionalism; Britishness; Cultural identity; Cultural memory; English literature; Englishness; European Union; Euroscepticism; Island myth