Rule Britannia, Brexit and Cornish Identity

Rule Britannia, Brexit and Cornish Identity

This article returns Rule Britannia to its own political, geographical and biographical context at a time when Daphne Du Maurier’s last novel has achieved a kind of afterlife in post-2016 Brexit referendum discourse. Vanishing Cornwall (1967) and The House on the Strand (1969) drew on visions of the...

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Publicado: Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines 2021
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Rule Britannia
Brexit
Cornwall
Celtic nationalism
Cornish identity
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:57e57a746fa342f9947076c6d5ca4eb32021-12-02T09:54:42ZRule Britannia, Brexit and Cornish Identity1762-615310.4000/lisa.13794https://doaj.org/article/57e57a746fa342f9947076c6d5ca4eb32021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/lisa/13794https://doaj.org/toc/1762-6153This article returns Rule Britannia to its own political, geographical and biographical context at a time when Daphne Du Maurier’s last novel has achieved a kind of afterlife in post-2016 Brexit referendum discourse. Vanishing Cornwall (1967) and The House on the Strand (1969) drew on visions of the past in a decade when the growing tourist industry was exploiting historical representations of the peninsula, but Rule Britannia (1972) was a new departure, marking a reorientation of Du Maurier’s relationship to contemporary Cornwall. The decision to take Britain into the European Common Market and the rise of Celtic nationalism had a clear bearing on the book. So too did Daphne’s move from Menabilly to Kilmarth, her personal relationship to Cornish people, and her continuing need for Cornwall as she faced her retirement from writing fiction.Ella WestlandMaison de la Recherche en Sciences Humainesarticledu Maurier DaphneRule BritanniaBrexitCornwallCeltic nationalismCornish identitySocial SciencesHENFRRevue LISA, Vol 19 (2021)
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topic du Maurier Daphne
Rule Britannia
Brexit
Cornwall
Celtic nationalism
Cornish identity
Social Sciences
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Rule Britannia
Brexit
Cornwall
Celtic nationalism
Cornish identity
Social Sciences
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Ella Westland
Rule Britannia, Brexit and Cornish Identity
description This article returns Rule Britannia to its own political, geographical and biographical context at a time when Daphne Du Maurier’s last novel has achieved a kind of afterlife in post-2016 Brexit referendum discourse. Vanishing Cornwall (1967) and The House on the Strand (1969) drew on visions of the past in a decade when the growing tourist industry was exploiting historical representations of the peninsula, but Rule Britannia (1972) was a new departure, marking a reorientation of Du Maurier’s relationship to contemporary Cornwall. The decision to take Britain into the European Common Market and the rise of Celtic nationalism had a clear bearing on the book. So too did Daphne’s move from Menabilly to Kilmarth, her personal relationship to Cornish people, and her continuing need for Cornwall as she faced her retirement from writing fiction.
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