This collection of original research essays celebrates in a scholarly focused fashion the 250th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe's birthday. "The Great Enchantress" of the Gothic romance, as her contemporaries re-christened her, was then and has been ever since the publication of her fiction, an author endowed with exceptional powers of enchantment over words, sounds and images. The contributors to this collection, all expert academics from Poland, France and Lithuania, specializing in 18th- and 19th-century literature, are determined to show that the enduring cultural presence of the...