Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1. The Gothic–Theory Conversation: An Introduction 1
5. Part I: The Gothic, Theory and History
6. 2. History/Genealogy/Gothic: Godwin, Scott and their Progeny 33
7. 3. The Gothic in and as Race Theory 53
8. 4. Postcolonial Gothic in and as Theory 71
9. Part II: The Gothic of Psychoanalysis and its Progeny
10. 5. The Gothic Body before and after Freud 91
11. 6. Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection 108
12. Part III: Feminism, Gender Theory, Sexuality and the Gothic
13. 7. Unsettling Feminism: The Savagery of Gothic 129
14. 8. Gothic Fiction and Queer Theory 147
15. Part IV: Theorising the Gothic in Modern Media
16. 9. The Gothic at the Heart of Film and Film Theory 165
17. 10. Techno-Terrors and the Emergence of Cyber-Gothic 182
18. Part V: The Gothic before and after Post-structuralism
19. 11. The Gothic as a Theory of Symbolic Exchange 203
20. 12. Incorporations: The Gothic and Deconstruction 220
21. 13. Dark Materialism: Gothic Objects, Commodities and Things 240
22. 14. Thinking the Thing: The Outer Reaches of Knowledge in Lovecraft and Deleuze 260
23. 15. Gothic and the Question of Ethics: Otherness, Alterity, Violence 279
24. Part VI: The Gothic–Theory Relationship in Retrospect and Prospect
25. 16. On the Threshold of Gothic: A Reflection 301
26. Notes on Contributors 320
27. Index 325