Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses

ISBN-13: 9780815376682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 218 str.

Robert Eaglestone

Opis

In Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone brings together a diverse cohort of contributors, comprised of established literary scholars and newer voices, to engage openly with the political and social realities of Brexit.

Spis treści

Introduction: Brexit and Literature, Robert Eaglestone  1. The Banality of Brexit, Lyndsey Stonebridge  2. BrexLit, Kristian Shaw  3. Autumn After the Referendum, Petra Rau  4. Do Novels Tell Us How to Vote? Sara Upstone  5. Poetry and Brexit, Anne Varty  6. English Literature saved my life, Bryan Cheyette  7. Migrant Britain, Ankhi Mukherjee  8. Scratching the Post-Imperial Itch, Anshuman Mondal  9. Cruel nostalgia and the Memory of the Second World War, Robert Eaglestone  10. Brexit and the aesthetics of anachronism, Michael Gardiner  11. Fake news literary criticism, J. A. Smith  12. The Psychopolitics of Brexit, Martin Murray  13. Brexit and the Imagination, Gabriel Josipovici  14. The Lost Nomad of Europe, Eva Aldea  15. Researching Britain and Europe, then and now, Ann-Marie Einhaus  16. Brexit and the German Question, Simon Glendenning  17. Brexit: thinking and resistance, Thomas Docherty  Epilogue: The Immigrant at Port Selda, George Szirtes

O autorze

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on contemporary fiction and philosophy and on the Holocaust and other genocides. He is the author of the best-selling textbook Doing English (4^th edn, Routledge, 2017) , The Broken Voice (2017), and in 2014 was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.