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Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siècle England

Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siècle England

Glover, David

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1107022819
ISBN13: 9781107022812
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 24 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 that remain vital today.

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