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Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Eighteenth-Century Gothic : Radcliffe, Reader, Writer, Romancer by Fred Botting and Dale Townshend is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this accessible and lucid introduction, Fred Botting traces the sources and developments of a transgressive genre which has thrived for over two centuries. He examines the key texts, origins and writers, as well as their cultural and historical location, their critical reception and their influence.Gothic focuses on the various styles and forms of the genre and analyses the cultural significance of its prevalent figures: the ghosts, monsters, vampires, doubles and horrors that are its definitive features. Botting traces its history from its origins in the eighteenth century through to modernist and postmodernist representations. He offers a broad overview of the themes, images and effects that not only define the genre but also endure and reappear endlessly in both ‘high’ and ‘popular’ literature and culture.Gothic is an enlightening textbook which students new to the daunting subject of literary theory will find both essential reading and an invaluable foundation for further study.Fred Botting lectures on Romanticism and literary theory at Lancaster University. He is the author of Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory and editor of Frankenstein: A New Casebook.

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Author

Fred Botting and Dale Townshend

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415251167

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Horror, Social Science