"It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times": Brexit and Literary Mood in Ali Smith's Autumn. (2nd June 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times": Brexit and Literary Mood in Ali Smith's Autumn. (2nd June 2022)
- Main Title:
- "It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times": Brexit and Literary Mood in Ali Smith's Autumn
- Authors:
- Adam, Sibyl
- Abstract:
- Abstract: Ali Smith's Autumn is widely regarded as one of the most significant Brexlit novels to be published since the UK voted to leave the European Union in a referendum on 23 June 2016. This article analyzes the novel's use of mood, which is generated simultaneously through representations of collective emotional reactions, an innovative temporal structure, and through a reworking of the state-of-the-nation novel tradition. The relationship between the nation and the novel is developed through temporality, where historical and contemporary collective feelings of crisis unify the nonchronological narrative sequence. This article makes an intervention into discussions of Brexlit by foregrounding the use of mood as a regulator of multiple temporalities and nonchronological structural engagements with time as more useful than conventional realism in conveying the national impact of Brexit.
- Is Part Of:
- Contemporary women's writing. Volume 16:Number 1(2022)
- Journal:
- Contemporary women's writing
- Issue:
- Volume 16:Number 1(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 16, Issue 1 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0016-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 60
- Page End:
- 78
- Publication Date:
- 2022-06-02
- Subjects:
- Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
809.89287 - Journal URLs:
- http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ ↗
http://cww.oxfordjournals.org ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/cww/vpac001 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1754-1476
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- Legaldeposit
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