Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siecle 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...