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British Novels and the European Union

Part of the St Antony's Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22798-1

ISBN: 978-3-031-22797-4

Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland - Springer Journals

Mar 9, 2023

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Chapter 1Introduction: Brexit!

Bischoff, Lisa

Pages: 1 –67

[Eurosceptic dreams of an independent UK and nightmares of faceless EU bureaucrats are not confined to the world of politics, public opinion and the media. Those tropes have also found their way into the literary domain. From 1973 till now, around a dozen novels about the European integration...
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Chapter 2Defending the Nation

Bischoff, Lisa

Pages: 69 –122

[Cultural tensions between Britain and the European Union take centre stage in the Eurosceptic novels which represent how the EU culturally invades Britain and dystopia-like encroaches on the terrains of British history and identity, fabricating and propagandising a shared European past, a common...
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Chapter 3Taking Back Control

Bischoff, Lisa

Pages: 123 –183

[How is the European Union, and how is the political integration project represented in British Eurosceptic novels? The third chapter deals with the political form of the EU, its stage of integration, institutional set up, decision-making processes and policies as depicted in Eurosceptic fiction....
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Chapter 4Remaining or Leaving?

Bischoff, Lisa

Pages: 185 –202

[Economic pragmatism in relation to EU matters has characterised the approach of British governments ever since the beginnings of the integration project and it also pervades the Eurosceptic novels. Here, membership in the EU, frequently equated with the single market, appears to be a good thing...
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Chapter 5Conclusion: Breturn?

Bischoff, Lisa

Pages: 203 –207

[The concluding chapter summarises how literary Euroscepticism arises from three intertwined layers or dimensions of scepticism (cultural, political, economic). The analysis of the novels has laid bare long-held beliefs and deep-rooted reservations about the integration project and identified...

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