The Gothic and Theory : : An Edinburgh Companion / / Jerrold E. Hogle, Robert Miles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Hogle, Jerrold E.,; Miles, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Botting, Fred,; Bronfen, Elisabeth,; Bruhm, Steven,; Collings, David,; Haggerty, George E.,; Heise-von der Lippe, Anya,; Hogle, Jerrold E.,; Miles, Robert,; Powell, Anna,; Punter, David,; Rajan, Tilottama,; Rudd, Alison,; Spooner, Catherine,; Townshend, Dale,; Wester, Maisha,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuriesThis 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.Key FeaturesProvides the first detailed discussion of the interrelationship between literary theory and the Gothic from the inception of the Gothic to the present dayEnables students to connect what otherwise seem a wide variety of diverse phenomena, from the rise of philosophical ‘emotivism’ to poetic tales of terror and Gothic filmAdvances current scholarly investigation, by invigorating debates within both Gothic studies and literary theoryMakes connections between a wide variety of issues, from eco-crisis and contemporary culture wars to the persistent problem of the ‘other’

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Gothic–Theory Conversation: An Introduction -- Part I: The Gothic, Theory and History -- 2. History/Genealogy/Gothic: Godwin, Scott and their Progeny -- 3. The Gothic in and as Race Theory -- 4. Postcolonial Gothic in and as Theory -- Part II: The Gothic of Psychoanalysis and its Progeny -- 5. The Gothic Body before and after Freud -- 6. Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection -- Part III: Feminism, Gender Theory, Sexuality and the Gothic -- 7. Unsettling Feminism: The Savagery of Gothic -- 8. Gothic Fiction and Queer Theory -- Part IV: Theorising the Gothic in Modern Media -- 9. The Gothic at the Heart of Film and Film Theory -- 10. Techno-Terrors and the Emergence of Cyber-Gothic -- Part V: The Gothic before and after Post-structuralism -- 11. The Gothic as a Theory of Symbolic Exchange -- 12. Incorporations: The Gothic and Deconstruction -- 13. Dark Materialism: Gothic Objects, Commodities and Things -- 14. Thinking the Thing: The Outer Reaches of Knowledge in Lovecraft and Deleuze -- 15. Gothic and the Question of Ethics: Otherness, Alterity, Violence -- Part VI: The Gothic–Theory Relationship in Retrospect and Prospect -- 16. On the Threshold of Gothic: A Reflection -- Notes on Contributors -- Index