British Writing from Empire to Brexit: Writing, Identity, and Nation [Hardcover]

Introduction: Breaking Britain

Chapter 1. Nation, Empire and Identity in Late Colonial British Writing, 1900-1945

Chapter 2. Postwar Unsettlement, 1948-1980

Chapter 3. We have been made again, 1980-2016

Conclusion

Index

This introduction to British literature from 19002021 looks at British writing from the perspective of the 2016 Brexit vote and its repercussions. The book covers a wide variety of literature in order to expose the cultural and political history of Britain, its repeated challenges and highly class-bound, patriarchal structure.

Robert Spencer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles on cultural theory and on postcolonial and modern literature.

Howard J. Booth is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Manchester, UK. Among other research areas, he has written widely on the relationship of modern writing to empire. He is the General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Fiction of E. M. Forster. 

Anastasia Valassopoulos is Senior Lecturer in World Literatures at the University of Manchester, UK. She has published widely on postcolonial literatures and cultures.

This introduction to British literature from 1900 to 2021 looks at British writing from the perspective of the 2016 Brexit vote and its seismic repercussions. The book covers a wide variety of British literature in order to expose the cultural and political history of Britain, its repeated challenges and highly class-bound, patriarchal structure.

British Writing from Empire to Brexit: Writing, Identity, and Nation offers a stark view of wlƒ-