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  title info:
    title: Literature, immigration and diaspora in fin-de-siecle England
    sub title: a cultural history of the 1905 Aliens Act
  name:
    name part: Glover, David
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: c2012
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "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
  table of contents: 1. Messianic neutrality: George Eliot and the politics of national identity -- 2. Palaces and sweatshops: east end fictions and east end politics -- 3. Counterpublics of anti-Semitism -- 4. Writing the 1905 aliens act -- 5. Restriction and its discontents
  note: David Glover
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-225) and index
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration in literature
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration law
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: National characteristics, British
  classification: PR478.N37 G57 2012
  identifier: 1107022819 (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781107022812 (hardback : alk. paper)
  record info:
    record creation date: 130519
    record change date: 20131017093000.0
    record identifier: 0000082990