David Glover

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides an in-depth history of the 1905 Aliens Act, from its late Victorian cultural origins to its early-twentieth-century aftermath.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781107022812
• ISBN-10: 1107022819
• Artikelnr.: 36027775

Autorenporträt

David Lawrence Glover is an actor, poet and director from Philadelphia. He is drawn to stories that challenge comfort, question vulnerability, and press at the potent roots of trauma and healing. His artistic body of work primarily centers on identity, history, and home. He is most interested in stories that exemplify the full complexity and measures of black life, love, and liberation. He currently resides in Brooklyn.This is his debut book of poetry.IG: @sirdavidlawrencegloverwww.actordavidglover.com

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Afterword
Notes
Index.