Before Borders Book Reviews
Before Borders by Stephanie DeGooyer Book Summary
An ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.
Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of feudal allegiance and integrate new subjects into their nations. At the same time, writers of prose fiction were attempting to undo centuries of rules about who could—and who could not—be a subject of literature. In Before Borders, Stephanie DeGooyer reconstructs how prose and legal fictions came together in the eighteenth century to dramatically reimagine national belonging through naturalization. The bureaucratic procedure of naturalization today was once a radically fictional way to create new citizens and literary subjects.
Through early modern court proceedings, the philosophy of John Locke, and the novels of Daniel Defoe, Laurence Sterne, Maria Edgeworth, and Mary Shelley, DeGooyer follows how naturalization evolved in England against the backdrop of imperial expansion. Political and philosophical proponents of naturalization argued that granting foreigners full political and civil rights would not only attract newcomers but also better attach them to English soil. However, it would take a new literary form—the novel—to fully realize this liberal vision of immigration. Together, these experiments in law and literature laid the groundwork for an alternative vision of subjecthood in England and its territories.
Reading eighteenth-century legal and prose fiction, DeGooyer draws attention to an overlooked period of immigration history and compels readers to reconsider the creative potential of naturalization.
Book Name | Before Borders |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
Author | Stephanie DeGooyer |
Published | 08 November 2022, Tuesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 3.71 MB |
Before Borders (Stephanie DeGooyer) Book Reviews 2024
We transfer money over €4 billion every month. We enable individual and business accounts to save 4 million Euros on bank transfer fees. Want to send free money abroad or transfer money abroad for free? Free international money transfer!
Did you know that you can earn 25 USD from our site just by registering? Get $25 for free by joining Payoneer!
Download Link | Book Format |
before-borders-ebook.pdf | |
before-borders-ebook.epub | EPUB |
before-borders-ebook.kindle | KINDLE |
Before Borders E-book (PDF, PUB, KINDLE) Download
Before Borders ebook before-borders (3.71 MB) download new links will be update!
Before Borders Similar Books
Book Name | Score | Reviews | Price |
Just Kids | 4.5/5 | 969 | $14.99 |
It Looked Different on the Model | 4/5 | 191 | $12.99 |
Anne Frank | 4/5 | 53 | $9.99 |
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte | 4.5/5 | 17 | Free |
THE GIVER | 4/5 | 73 | Free |
Enhance sleep, vision, cognition, flexibility, energy, long-range health and more. Performance Lab CORE Formulas support all aspects of human performance, across all walks of life. Boosts work performance and productivity with nootropics for focus, multitasking under stress, creative problem-solving and more.
Book Name | Score | Reviews | Price |
Vom Recht, Rechte zu haben | 0/5 | 0 | $10.99 |
The Right to Have Rights | 0/5 | 0 | $9.99 |
Summary of Before Borders by Stephanie DeGooyer
The Before Borders book written by Stephanie DeGooyer was published on 08 November 2022, Tuesday in the Literary Criticism category. A total of 30 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
Book Name | Author | Price |
My Reminiscences | Rabindranath Tagore | Free |
A Critic in Pall Mall | Oscar Wilde | Free |
Los miserables | Monique Villen | Free |
Carmen | Prosper Mérimée | Free |
On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | Free |
Coinbase is the world's most trusted place to buy and sell cryptocurrency. Open an account today, and if you buy or sell $100 or more of crypto, you'll receive $10 worth of free Bitcoin!
Book Name | Author | Price |
The Most of Nora Ephron | Nora Ephron | $14.99 |
A Little History of Poetry | John Carey | $11.99 |
How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised | Thomas C. Foster | $12.99 |
Illuminations | Walter Benjamin | $14.99 |
Criticism and Politics | Bruce Robbins | $11.99 |
Jasper is the generative AI platform for business that helps your team create content tailored for your brand 10X faster, wherever you work online.
Please wait! Before Borders book comments loading...
Stephanie DeGooyer - Before Borders Discussions & Comments
Have you read this book yet? What do you think about Before Borders by Stephanie DeGooyer book? Ask the bookpedia.co community a question about Before Borders!