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Alien Nation : Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality / Cannon Schmitt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Cultural StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780812233513
  • 9781512818581
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  • 823/.087290908
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.
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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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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