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.
- ISBN10 1512818585
- ISBN13 9781512818581
- Publish Date 9 January 2018 (first published 29 March 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 232
- Language English