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Before Borders : A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization / Stephanie DeGooyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeGooyer, Stephanie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Naturalization in literature.
- Law and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2022]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeGooyer, Stephanie Before Borders
- ISBN:
- 9781421443935
- OCLC:
- 1343245405
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