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Before Borders - A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization (Paperback)
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Before Borders - A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization (Paperback)
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An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative
mechanism for national expansion. Before borders determined who
belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a
legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of feudal
allegiance and integrate new subjects into their nations. At the
same time, writers of prose fiction were attempting to undo
centuries of rules about who could-and who could not-be a subject
of literature. In Before Borders, Stephanie DeGooyer reconstructs
how prose and legal fictions came together in the eighteenth
century to dramatically reimagine national belonging through
naturalization. The bureaucratic procedure of naturalization today
was once a radically fictional way to create new citizens and
literary subjects. Through early modern court proceedings, the
philosophy of John Locke, and the novels of Daniel Defoe, Laurence
Sterne, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley, DeGooyer follows how
naturalization evolved in England against the backdrop of imperial
expansion. Political and philosophical proponents of naturalization
argued that granting foreigners full political and civil rights
would not only attract newcomers but also better attach them to
English soil. However, it would take a new literary form-the
novel-to fully realize this liberal vision of immigration.
Together, these experiments in law and literature laid the
groundwork for an alternative vision of subjecthood in England and
its territories. Reading eighteenth-century legal and prose
fiction, DeGooyer draws attention to an overlooked period of
immigration history and compels readers to reconsider the creative
potential of naturalization.
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