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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and table -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Understanding the past, facing the future -- Part I Britain and Europe: political entanglements -- Not with a bang but a whimper: Brexit in historical perspective -- 'This is something which we know, in our bones, we cannot do': hopes and fears for a united Europe in Britain after the ... -- EU enlargement and the freedom of movement: imagined communities in the Conservative Party's discourse on Europe ...

The discursive role of Europe in a disunited kingdom -- Part II British discourses of Europe in literature and film -- 'Extr'ord'nary people, the Germans': Germans as aliens in post-war British popular culture -- 'I don't want to be a European': the European Other in British cultural discourse -- The dystopian nightmare of a European superstate: British fiction and the EU -- A case for a Green Brexit? Paul Kingsnorth, John Berger and the pros and cons of a sense of place -- Brexit and the Tudor turn: Philippa Gregory's narratives of national grievance

Part III Negotiating borders in British travel writing and memoir -- Guards of Brexit? Revisiting the cultural significance of the white cliffs of Dover -- From Iron Curtains to Iron Cliffs: British travel writing between East and West -- Fifty years of Unbelonging: a Gibraltarian writer's personal testimonial on the road to Brexit -- Index

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