The road to Brexit : a cultural perspective on British attitudes to Europe /

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This collection explores British attitudes to Continental Europe that explain the Brexit decision. Addressing British-European entanglements and the impact of British Euroscepticism, the book argues that Britain is in denial about the strength of its ties to Europe. The volume brings together litera...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Habermann, Ina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Temas:
European Union > Great Britain.
European Union
2000-2099
Public opinion > Great Britain.
British > Attitudes.
Opinion publique > Grande-Bretagne.
Britanniques > Attitudes.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
British > Attitudes
Diplomatic relations
Manners and customs
Public opinion
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Europe.
Europe > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations extérieures > Europe.
Europe > Relations extérieures > Grande-Bretagne.
Grande-Bretagne > Mœurs et coutumes > 21e siècle.
Europe
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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