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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.
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.
Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled
Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people
can enjoy any of the "inalienable" Rights of Man-before there can
be any specific rights to education, work, voting, and so on-there
must first be such a thing as "the right to have rights". The
concept received little attention at the time, but in our age of
mass deportations, Muslim bans, refugee crises, and extra-state
war, the phrase has become the centre of a crucial and lively
debate. Here five leading thinkers from varied
disciplines-including history, law, politics, and literary
studies-discuss the critical basis of rights and the meaning of
radical democratic politics today.
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne
derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at
Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8-11, 2013. It was
attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the
conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited
participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for
this volume, and the thirteen selected exhibit, it is hoped, the
defining features both of the conference and of Sterne studies at
the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is worth remarking
that the selected authors represent seven countries; that Sterne
may well be the most internationally accepted of all
eighteenth-century English authors is certainly a claim worthy of a
sentimental traveler. This collection recognizes three faces of
Sterne, beginning with several biographical essays examining,
respectively, his celebrity status, family life, politics, and
philosophy. The second face is that of Tristram, studied from
vantage points provided by ethics, linguistics, gender studies, and
comparative literature. The final group of essays examines the face
of Yorick as the protagonist of A Sentimental Journey, beginning
with an ethnographic study of relationships, moving through
questions of identity, and concluding with the possible future of
literary studies-a return to aesthetics.
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