| #5021565 in Books | 1997-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.00 x5.77 x8.84l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 232 pages||||"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 m
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 cen...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (New Cultural Studies) | Cannon Schmitt. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
