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

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 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"-- Provided by publisher Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century National characteristics, British. Emigration and immigration in literature. Emigration and immigration law -- Great Britain LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Emigration and immigration in literature Emigration and immigration law Literature and society National characteristics, British Englisch Literatur Einwanderer Motiv Fremdenfeindlichkeit Motiv Vreemdelingen. Great Britain Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139526227 1139526227 9781139530897 1139530895 9781139137102 1139137107

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