num_pages: 232
description: 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.
language: English
title: Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality
titlecomplete: Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality
genres: Gothic, Nonfiction, Theory
ratings_count: 7
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection