Britain in Europe: The Emergence of Post-Insular Identities and Transcultural Discourses in Contemporary British Literature Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Despite the Euroscepticism dominating British foreign policy, contemporary British novelists, playwrights and travel writers play a vital role in imagining Europe as a transnational community. While previous studies on how Europe is imagined in British literature have predominantly drawn on postcolonial theory and demonstrated how Europe is constructed as Britain's national or cultural 'Other', this project attends to how contemporary British ...