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

ISBN: 1107022819

ISBN13: 9781107022812

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

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 si?cle Britain...

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