Download or read book Gothic: Eighteenth-century Gothic : Radcliffe, reader, writer, romancer written by Fred Botting and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together key writings which convey the breadth of what is understood to be Gothic, and the ways in which it has produced, reinforced, and undermined received ideas about literature and culture. In addition to its interests in the late eighteenth-century origins of the form, this collection anthologizes path-breaking essays on most aspects of gothic production, including some of its nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century manifestations across a broad range of cultural media.