TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glover,David
TI  - Literature, immigration and diaspora in fin-de-siècle England: a cultural history of the 1905 Aliens Act 
SN  - 9781139526227
AV  - PR478.N37 G57 2012eb
U1  - 820.9/355 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - National characteristics, British
KW  - Emigration and immigration in literature
KW  - Emigration and immigration law
KW  - Littérature et société
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Britanniques
KW  - Émigration et immigration dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Englisch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Einwanderer
KW  - Motiv
KW  - Fremdenfeindlichkeit
KW  - Vreemdelingen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
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