The Road to Brexit

Ina Habermann is Professor of English Literature at the University of Basel, Switzerland -- .

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 Küng
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 -- .