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Literary Criticism English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Alien Nation

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality

by (author) Cannon Schmitt

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Initial publish date
Mar 1997
Category
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • 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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Cannon Schmitt is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.