The Gothic and Theory

An Edinburgh Companion

Jerrold E. Hogle, Robert Miles (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474427784 (ISBN)

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This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory – philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.

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 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 theory. Makes connections between a wide variety of issues, from eco-crisis and contemporary culture wars to the persistent problem of the ‘other’

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. Hogle

Part 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 Rudd

Part 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. Hogle

Part III: Feminism, Gender Theory, Sexuality, and the Gothic6. Unsettling Feminism: The Savagery of Gothic - Catherine Spooner7. Gothic Fiction and Queer Theory - George E. Haggerty

Part 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 Lippe

Part 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 Townshend

Part VI: The Gothic-Theory Relationship in Retrospect and Prospect 15. On the Threshold of Gothic: A Reflection - David Punter

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	516 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781474427784 / 9781474427784
Zustand	Neuware