David Glover

Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siecle England (eBook, PDF)

A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 siecle 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139534468
• Artikelnr.: 38277108

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.