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Article: Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality. By CANNON SCHMITT. (New Cultural Studies) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997. xii + 219 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]; $35.
In a letter to Wordsworth, Coleridge wrote: 'I amused myself a day or two ago on reading a romance in Mrs. Radcliffe's style with making out a scheme, which was to serve for all romances a priori--only varying the proportions--A Baron or Baroness ignorant of their Birth, and in some dependent situation--Castle--on a Rock--a Sepulchre--at some distance from the Rock--Deserted Rooms--Underground Passage--Pictures--A Ghost, so believed--or a written ...