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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmitt, Cannon (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1997]
Colección:New Cultural Studies
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9781512818581
1512818585