“Insular hobbits”? Englishness, Euroscepticism and the Brexit vote in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018)

In Middle England (2018), novelist Jonathan Coe revisits some events of Britain’s recent past in order to highlight, in fictional form, some potential reasons for the Brexit vote and to illustrate the widening political divides among the population. Among other factors, Coe’s satire draws our attent...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guillaume Clément
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2021-07-01
Series:Revue LISA
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/13109
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!