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Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siecle England - A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act (Hardcover, New)
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Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siecle England - A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act (Hardcover, New)
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The 1905 Aliens Act was the first modern law to restrict
immigration to British shores. In this book, David Glover asks how
it was possible for Britain, a nation that had prided itself on
offering asylum to refugees, to pass such legislation. Tracing the
ways that the legal notion of the "alien" became a national-racist
epithet indistinguishable from the figure of "the Jew," Glover
argues that the literary and popular entertainments of fin de
siecle Britain perpetuated a culture of xenophobia. Reconstructing
the complex socio-political field known as "the alien question,"
Glover examines the work of George Eliot, Israel Zangwill, Rudyard
Kipling, and Joseph Conrad, together with forgotten writers like
Margaret Harkness, Edgar Wallace, and James Blyth. By linking them
to the beliefs and ideologies that circulated via newspapers,
periodicals, political meetings, Royal Commissions, patriotic
melodramas, and social surveys, Glover sheds new light on dilemmas
about nationality, borders, and citizenship that remain vital
today."
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