Literary Criticism English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Alien Nation
Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1997
- Category
- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780812233513
- Publish Date
- Mar 1997
- List Price
- $79.95 USD
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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.
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Contributor Notes
Cannon Schmitt is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.
