Alien nation
Subtitle: nineteenth-century Gothic fictions and English nationality
By: Cannon Schmitt.
Series: New cultural studies
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; National characteristics, English, in literature.; Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.; Nationalism in literature.; Autobiography.
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 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, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.