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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Habermann, Ina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
European Union > Great Britain.
British > Attitudes.
Public opinion > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Europe > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Europe.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : understanding the past, facing the future / Ina Habermann
  • Not with a bang but a whimper : Brexit in historical perspective / Robert Holland
  • '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
  • EU enlargement and the freedom of movement : imagined communities in the Conservative Party's discourse on Europe (1997-2016) / Marlene Herrschaft- Iden
  • The discursive role of Europe in a disunited kingdom / Klaus Stolz
  • 'Extr'ord'nary people, the Germans' : Germans as aliens in post-war British popular culture / Judith Vonberg
  • 'I don't want to be a European' : the European other in British cultural discourse / Menno Spiering
  • The dystopian nightmare of a European superstate : British fiction and the EU / Lisa Bischoff
  • A case for a green Brexit? Paul Kingsnorth, John Berger and the pros and cons of a sense of place / Christian Schmitt- Kilb
  • Brexit and the Tudor turn : Philippa Gregory's narratives of national grievance / Siobhan O'Connor
  • Guards of Brexit? Revisiting the cultural significance of the white cliffs of Dover / Melanie Küng
  • From Iron Curtains to Iron Cliffs : British travel writing between East and West / Blanka Blagojevic
  • Fifty years of unbelonging : a Gibraltarian writer's personal testimonial on the road to Brexit / M.G. Sanchez.

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