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Alien Nation
Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality
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Cannon Schmitt
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English
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2018
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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.
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Cannon Schmitt is Professor of English at the University of Toronto.
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"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."
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Gothic Fictions and English Nationality
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1. Paranoia and the Englishwoman: Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian
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2. De Quincey’s Gothic Autobiography and the Opium Wars
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3. Border Crossings: Nationality, Sexuality, and Colonialism in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette
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4. Written on the Body: The Sensational Nation in Matthew Arnold and Wilkie Collins
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5. Mother Dracula
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Afterword
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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May 22, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781512818581
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232
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
