Gothic and Theory

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).

• AcknowledgementsThe Gothic-Theory Conversation: An Introduction - Jerrold E. HoglePart I: The Gothic, Theory, and History 1. History / Genealogy / Gothic: Godwin, Scott, and Their Progeny - Robert Miles2. 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 Bruhm5. Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection - Jerrold E. HoglePart III: Feminism, Gender Theory, Sexuality, and the Gothic6. Unsettling Feminism: The Savagery of Gothic - Catherine Spooner7. Gothic Fiction and Queer Theory - George E. HaggertyPart IV. Theorizing the Gothic in Modern Media8. 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 Poststructuralism10. The Gothic as a Theory of Symbolic Exchange - David Collings11. Incorporations: The Gothic and Deconstruction - Tilottama Rajan12.Dark Materialism: Gothic Objects, Commodities, and Things - Fred Botting13. Thinking the Thing: The Outer Reaches of Knowledge in Lovecraft and Deleuze - Anna Powell14. 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

This delightful collection of essays illuminates the symbiotic nature of the relationship between the Gothic and Theory. The editors are to be congratulated on assembling what is sure to become an indispensable volume for both students and scholars of the Gothic and of Theory.