Alien nation : nineteenth-century Gothic fictions and English nationality / Cannon Schmitt.
Alien nation : nineteenth-century Gothic fictions and English nationality / Cannon Schmitt.
Alien nation : nineteenth-century Gothic fictions and English nationality / Cannon Schmitt.
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Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.
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N823.0872909/4
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English
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xii, 219 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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:...
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Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.
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Pennsylvania
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c1997.
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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 of 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, ins...
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Alien nation : nineteenth-century Gothic fictions and English nationality / Cannon Schmitt.
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New cultural studies.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
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c1997.
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N823.0872909/4
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74VM8lylpEJy
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0812233514 (cloth alk. paper)
9780812233513 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0812233514 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780812233513 (cloth alk. paper)
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823.087290908
823087290908
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991000319049702626
