ABSTRACT Just as the 2016 referendum results had spiralled into a full-blown crisis, it became increasingly clear that Britain’s push to leave the European Union (EU) concealed another crisis: a “Brexit within”. This term refers to the entries, exits, and enclosures that course through a dominant narrative of English national identity: countryside versus city life. Drawing on Raymond Williams’s The Country and the City (1973), this article argues that the rural and the urban serve as a template to diagnose other forms of division in Britain – racial, social, cultural, and economic – that the Brexit vote brought to the fore. The reading is based on two works of fiction published in the immediate aftermath of the referendum: Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016) and Amanda Craig’s The Lie of the Land (2017). Both narratives continue a larger literary tradition of Condition-of-England novels, as they map out new sites of marginalization and precarity in the post-imperial nation.

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英国脱欧：当代英国小说中的乡村和城市地图

摘要正当 2016 年公投结果演变成一场全面危机时，越来越明显的是，英国推动脱离欧盟 (EU) 掩盖了另一场危机：“内部脱欧”。这个术语指的是通过英国民族认同的主导叙事：乡村与城市生活的入口、出口和围栏。本文借鉴雷蒙德·威廉姆斯 (Raymond Williams) 的《乡村与城市》(The Country and the City (1973))，认为农村和城市是诊断英国其他形式的分裂——种族、社会、文化和经济——的模板，英国脱欧公投给这些分裂带来了前面。阅读内容基于公投后立即出版的两部小说作品：阿里·史密斯的《秋天》（2016 年）和阿曼达·克雷格的《土地的谎言》（2017 年）。