'Taking Back Control' of the Nation and Its History?

Nostalgia not only played a decisive role in the outcome of the 2016 Brexit referendum where it was most pointedly expressed in the infamous slogan Take Back Control but also shapes current British politics, culture, and society at large. The present monograph provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of this recent ubiquity of nostalgia from a British Cultural Studies perspective. Central to its newly developed narratological approach is the concept of the contemporary master narrat ...