I offer my gratitude to the journal's anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful, careful, and
generous comments and suggestions. Many thanks to former students in my graduate …

Culture is the heart of national identity, as Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
showed. A nation is too huge to be a real community in which everyone actually knows each …

This dissertation reveals a nuance to contemporary British texts that have thus far been
almost homogenously categorized as contributing to a negative portrayal of the political …

Five years after the Brexit vote, the public domain is still filled with doubts, even anxieties,
concerning the projections of a post-Brexit world. Given Benedict Anderson's thoughts on …

< 1> London is a city that historically has always been both integral to the identity of
Englishness, as well as a city with its own fiercely independent culture. This tension lies at …

This bachelor thesis deals with the features of British identity influenced by Brexit and their
projections in the works of Ian McEwan and James Silvester. The theoretical part outlines …

This article assesses the impact of “the new British,” or “three kingdoms,”“four
nations,”“archipelagic” history, and literary criticism. First advocated in the 1970s by JGA …

FIRST a few words about the collaborative contemplation of this key-word. It emerges most
directly from the fact that all five of us are currently engaged in editing Transatlantic …

Brexit, Britain's exit from the supranational polity of the European Union has unsettled the
vision of European unity. Rather than nourishing an “and/both” cosmopolitan view even in …

In her lecture “What is English Literature?” Gertrude Stein talks about how the English have
daily living, but Americans don't. On the one hand, she remarks,“description of the complete …