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Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuries.
This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural - both in the many modes of Gothic and in many of the realms of theory now current in the modern world. Each essay focuses on a particular kind of theory-Gothic relationship, every one of which has a history and each of which is still being explored in enactments of the Gothic and of theory today.
Jerrold E. Hogle is Professor of English Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona.
Robert Miles is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
The Gothic-Theory Conversation: An Introduction -
Jerrold E. HoglePart I: The Gothic, Theory, and History
1. History / Genealogy / Gothic: Godwin, Scott, and Their Progeny -
Robert Miles
2.
The Gothic in and as Race Theory -
Maisha Wester 3. Postcolonial Gothic in and as Theory -
Alison RuddPart II: The Gothic of Psychoanalysis and its Exfoliations
4.
The Gothic Body Before and After Freud -
Steven Bruhm
5. Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection -
Jerrold E. HoglePart III: Feminism, Gender Theory, Sexuality, and the Gothic
6. Unsettling Feminism: The Savagery of Gothic -
Catherine Spooner
7. Gothic Fiction and Queer Theory -
George E. HaggertyPart IV. Theorizing the Gothic in Modern Media
8. The Gothic at the Heart of Film and Film Theory -
Elisabeth Bronfen
9. Techo-Terrors and the Emergence of Cyber-Gothic -
Anya Heise-von der LippePart V: The Gothic Before and After Poststructuralism
10. The Gothic as a Theory of Symbolic Exchange -
David Collings
11. Incorporations: The Gothic and Deconstruction -
Tilottama Rajan
12.Dark Materialism: Gothic Objects, Commodities, and Things -
Fred Botting
13. Thinking the Thing: The Outer Reaches of Knowledge in Lovecraft and Deleuze -
Anna Powell
14. Gothic and the Question of Ethics: Otherness, Alterity, Violence -
Dale TownshendPart VI: The Gothic-Theory Relationship in Retrospect and Prospect
15. On the Threshold of Gothic: A Reflection -
David Punter
About the author
Jerrold E. Hogle is Professor of English and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona in the USA and Past President of the International Gothic Association. His published books include
Shelley's Process (1988),
The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera (2002), and both
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction and
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic.Robert Miles is Professor of English at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and Past President of the International Gothic Association. His published books include
Gothic Writing 1750-1820: A Genealogy (1993),
Ann Radcliffe: The Great Enchantress (1995), and
Romantic Misfits (2008). He is the co-editor, with E.J. Clery, of
Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820 (2000).
Summary
This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.
