The Gothic and Theory: An Edinburgh Companion

Jerrold E. Hogle; Robert Miles

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2019

The Gothic and Theory

An Edinburgh Companion

Jerrold E. Hogle and Robert Miles

In the series Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474427791

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About this book

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.

Key Features

Provides the first detailed discussion of the interrelationship between literary theory and the Gothic from the inception of the Gothic to the present day
Enables 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 film
Advances current scholarly investigation, by invigorating debates within both Gothic studies and literary theory
Makes connections between a wide variety of issues, from eco-crisis and contemporary culture wars to the persistent problem of the ‘other’

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. The Gothic–Theory Conversation: An Introduction Jerrold E. Hogle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: The Gothic, Theory and History
2. History/Genealogy/Gothic: Godwin, Scott and their Progeny Robert Miles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. The Gothic in and as Race Theory Maisha Wester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. Postcolonial Gothic in and as Theory Alison Rudd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Part II: The Gothic of Psychoanalysis and its Progeny
5. The Gothic Body before and after Freud Steven Bruhm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6. Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection Jerrold E. Hogle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Part III: Feminism, Gender Theory, Sexuality and the Gothic
7. Unsettling Feminism: The Savagery of Gothic Catherine Spooner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8. Gothic Fiction and Queer Theory George E. Haggerty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Part IV: Theorising the Gothic in Modern Media
9. The Gothic at the Heart of Film and Film Theory Elisabeth Bronfen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10. Techno-Terrors and the Emergence of Cyber-Gothic Anya Heise-von der Lippe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Part V: The Gothic before and after Post-structuralism
11. The Gothic as a Theory of Symbolic Exchange David Collings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
12. Incorporations: The Gothic and Deconstruction Tilottama Rajan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
13. Dark Materialism: Gothic Objects, Commodities and Things Fred Botting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
14. Thinking the Thing: The Outer Reaches of Knowledge in Lovecraft and Deleuze Anna Powell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
15. Gothic and the Question of Ethics: Otherness, Alterity, Violence Dale Townshend Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Part VI: The Gothic–Theory Relationship in Retrospect and Prospect
16. On the Threshold of Gothic: A Reflection David Punter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474427791