Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality

Cannon Schmitt

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1997

Alien Nation

Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality

Cannon Schmitt

In the series Anniversary Collection

In the series New Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818581

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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.

Author / Editor information

Cannon Schmitt is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

"Schmitt's account of the political function and fate of the Gothic during the course of a century is both topical and engaging. His thesis that the Gothic participated in the construction of an English national identity has the potential not just to enrich more familiar versions of the Gothic but to compel that discourse into relation with current studies of 'nation and narration' in postcolonial literature."—Janet Gezari, Connecticut College

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Introduction: Gothic Fictions and English Nationality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Paranoia and the Englishwoman: Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. De Quincey’s Gothic Autobiography and the Opium Wars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. Border Crossings: Nationality, Sexuality, and Colonialism in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Written on the Body: The Sensational Nation in Matthew Arnold and Wilkie Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
5. Mother Dracula Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

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Published: January 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781512818581