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