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Before Borders : A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization
Author
Title
Before Borders : A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization / Stephanie DeGooyer.
ISBN
9781421443935
9781421443911
9781421443928
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
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Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Bringing together eighteenth-century legal discourse and prose fiction, the author gives a cross-disciplinary account of immigration history. She tells a revisionist history in which, for jurists, philosophers, and fiction writers, naturalization is a creative mechanism for national expansion"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Introduction. Open country: Pt.1. Theories of naturalization
Naturalization in history
Ideas of naturalization
Pt. 2. Fictions of naturalization
Law of the foreign father
Open-door domestic fiction
Pt. 3. Relations of naturalization
Unnatural-born subjects.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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