Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society - from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives - that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath.
Reading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.

Kristian Shaw is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK. He is the author of Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction (2017).

Introduction: The European Question
1) An Imperfect Union: British Eurosceptic Fictions
2) This Blessed Plot: The English Revolt
3) The Disunited Kingdom: Politics of Devolution
4) Fortress Britain: The Great Immigration Debate
5)L'espirit de L'escalier: Post-Brexit Fictions
Conclusion: Life After Europe
Bibliography
Index