{"product_id":"before-borders-9781421443928","title":"Before Borders","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore 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 couldand who could notbe a subject of literature. In \u003ci\u003eBefore Borders\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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 naturaliz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...superbly interdisciplinary book...\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Law in Context\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Open Country\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Theories of Naturalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Naturalization in History\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Ideas of Naturalization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Fictions of Naturalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e3. Law of the Foreign Father\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Open-Door Domestic Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Relations of Naturalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e5. Unnatural-Born Subjects\u003cbr\u003eCoda\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408146112855,"sku":"9781421443928","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421443928.jpg?v=1730501755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/before-borders-9781421443928","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}