Alien Nation : : Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality / / Cannon Schmitt.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©1997 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Cultural Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gothic Fictions and English Nationality -- 1. Paranoia and the Englishwoman: Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian -- 2. De Quincey’s Gothic Autobiography and the Opium Wars -- 3. Border Crossings: Nationality, Sexuality, and Colonialism in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette -- 4. Written on the Body: The Sensational Nation in Matthew Arnold and Wilkie Collins -- 5. Mother Dracula -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781512818581 9783110442526 |
DOI: | 10.9783/9781512818581 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Cannon Schmitt. |