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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[1997]
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| Colección: | New Cultural Studies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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