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Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality

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Rife with sexuality, chaos, confusion, and terror, the Gothic has seemed to many of its recent readers to be a subversive genre, resisting enforced gender constructions or straitened notions of rationality, disinterring that which has been forbidden or repressed. In Alien Nation Cannon Schmitt moves away from these models of the genre to chart, instead, the ways in which Gothic fictions and conventions gave shape to a sense of English nationality during the century in which British imperial power was stretching out its greatest reach.

Language: English

Pages: 232

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection

Release: March 29, 1997

ISBN: 0812233514

ISBN 13: 9780812233513

Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Rife with sexuality, chaos, confusion, and terror, the Gothic has seemed to many of its recent readers to be a subversive genre, resisting enforced gender constructions or straitened notions of rationality, disinterring that which has been forbidden or repressed. In Alien Nation Cannon Schmitt moves away from these models of the genre to chart, instead, the ways in which Gothic fictions and conventions gave shape to a sense of English nationality during the century in which British imperial power was stretching out its greatest reach.

Language: English

Pages: 232

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection

Release: March 29, 1997

ISBN: 0812233514

ISBN 13: 9780812233513

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