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Literature, immigration and diaspora in fin-de-siècle England : a cultural history of the 1905 Aliens Act Cover Image

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Literature, immigration and diaspora in fin-de-siècle England : a cultural history of the 1905 Aliens Act

Glover, David 1946- (Author).

Summary: "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 siècle 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"--

Record details

ISBN: 1139137107
ISBN: 9781139137102
ISBN: 1139530895
ISBN: 9781139530897
ISBN: 1139526227
ISBN: 9781139526227
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Messianic neutrality: George Eliot and the politics of national identity -- Palaces and sweatshops: East End fictions and East End politics -- Counterpublics of anti-Semitism -- Writing the 1905 Aliens Act -- Restriction and its discontents -- Afterword.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.