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Brexlit Dr Kristian Shaw (University of Lincoln, UK)

Brexlit By Dr Kristian Shaw (University of Lincoln, UK)

Brexlit by Dr Kristian Shaw (University of Lincoln, UK)

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Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project by Dr Kristian Shaw (University of Lincoln, UK)

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.

Brexlit Reviews

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. * Cercles: revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone *
Brexlit is indispensable for anyone thinking about Britain's contemporary literature and politics. Shaw tracks the marginal, at first, and then central issues of Europe and national identity through Eurosceptic fictions, representations of Englishness, devolution, migration and responses to Brexit. Lucidly written with astute, insightful critical analyses and an outstanding grasp of the political context, this is the best literary guide to 'Brexitland'. * Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London *

About Dr Kristian Shaw (University of Lincoln, UK)

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction: The European Question 1) An Imperfect Union: British Eurosceptic Fictions 2) This Blessed Plot: The English Revolt 3) The Disunited Kingdom: Politics of Devolution 4) Fortress Britain: The Great Immigration Debate 5)L'espirit de L'escalier: Post-Brexit Fictions Conclusion: Life After Europe Bibliography Index

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NLS9781350225817
9781350225817
1350225819
Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project by Dr Kristian Shaw (University of Lincoln, UK)
Dr Kristian Shaw (University of Lincoln, UK)
21st Century Genre Fiction
New
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-03-23
272
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