This volume explores the cultural significance of Brexit situating it in debates about nation
and identity. Contributors to this collection seek to contextualize Britain's decision to leave
the EU and to assess its reverberations in language literature and culture. Addressing such
aspects as British exceptionalism myth-making medievalism and nostalgia contributions range
from travelogues Ladybird books and rural cinema-going to ageing. An important focus lies on
marginalized groups and geographical fringes as contributors attend to the Irish situation and
the scarcity of EU migrants in Brexit literature (BrexLit). Finally two essays widen the
perspective to assess American parallels to the discourses about a Brexit that is still far
from done.
