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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Table of Contents:
- 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