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

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 ma...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic : ECG
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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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