Alien nation
nineteenth-century Gothic fictions and English nationality
Our rough guess is there are 54,750 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 3 hours and 39 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 7 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
We earn a commission on purchases
Author
Publication
1997 - University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa, Pennsylvania
Language
English
Word Count
54,750 words, Guess
Page Count
219 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1008127M
- ISBN-100812233514
- OCLC Control Number35968901
- Library of Congress Control Number96048072
- LibraryThing3556810
and 1 more
- Goodreads1035333
Classifications
- DDC823/.087290908
- LCCPR868.T3 S33 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
Topics
Places
Times
Series Statement
- New cultural studies
Other Editions
- Alien nation: nineteenth-century Gothic fictions and English nationality
Similar Books
The coherence of Gothic conventions
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Engendering a nation: a feminist account of Shakespeare's English histories
Jean E. Howard and Phyllis Rackin.
Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature
Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
7h 15m readVarieties of Female Gothic
Gary Kelly
The Castle of Otranto: a gothic story
Horace Walpole ; edited by W.S. Lewis ; with a new introduction and notes by E.J. Clery.
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!