“England Prevails?” Contemporary UK Politics and Alan Moore’s Border-Challenging Comics
Published in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
This article connects Alan Moore’s comics V for Vendetta (1982–1989) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. I (1999–2000) and Vol. II (2002–2003) with contemporary UK politics, particularly with Brexit, populism, and the idea of British exceptionalism and its link to Britain’s nostalgic relationship with its past as an empire. It argues tha...
