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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Glover, David, 1946-
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. National characteristics, British. Emigration and immigration in literature. Emigration and immigration law -- Great Britain. Emigration and immigration in literature. Emigration and immigration law. Literature and society. National characteristics, British. Great Britain. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11831084

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ISBN:	9781139526227 1139526227 9781139530897 1139530895 9781139137102 1139137107 9781107022812 1107022819
Notes:	Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Glover, David, 1946- Literature, immigration and diaspora in fin-de-siècle England. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107022812

Table of 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.