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Alien Nation : Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | New Cultural Studies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (232 p.) Issued also in print. |
| ISBN: | 9781512818581 9783110442526 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |