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This article examines the dynamics of fin-de-siècle European antisemitism through the lens of two gothic novels, Jules Verne's Le Château des Carpathes and Bram Stoker's Dracula. The complexities of Verne's depictions of Jews are placed in the wider context of persecution, integration and exclusion, and economic characterisations of 'the Jew' in Western and Eastern Europe. This is compared with the visceral fear of the 'other' as expressed in Dracula. The differences between implicit and explicit prejudice in the two texts are considered as components of the wider antisemitic discourse present in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACTThis article examines the dynamics of fin-de-siècle European antisemitism through the lens of two gothic novels, Jules Verne’s Le Château des Carpathesand Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The complexities of Verne’s depictions of Jews are placed in the wider context of persecution, integration and exclusion, and economic characterisations of ‘the Jew’ in Western and Eastern Europe. This is compared with the visceral fear of the ‘other’ as expressed in Dracula. The differences between implicit and explicit prejudice in the two texts are considered as components of the wider antisemitic discourse present in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century.

This article discusses the division of migrants in Great Britain into positive and negative categories since the 19th century. It tackles the central role of migration in the debate about Great Britain's relationship with the European Union (EU) following the former's exit from the EU, the focus of the Aliens Act of 1905 on Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe, and the distinction between good and bad minorities as depicted in Arnold White's 1899 book "The Modern Jew".