Title: Alien nation
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Autobiography, English Horror tales, English fiction, Gothic revival (Literature), History, History and criticism, Horror tales, English, National characteristics, English, in literature, Nationalism, Nationalism in literature, De quincey, thomas, 1785-1859, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, National characteristics in literature, Nationalism, great britain, Horror tales, history and criticism
Places: Great Britain
People: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PR868.T3 S33 1997