Acknowledgements; The 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 Miles; 2. 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 Bruhm; 5. Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection, Jerrold E. Hogle; Part III: Feminism, Gender Theory, Sexuality, and the Gothic; 6. Unsettling Feminism: The Savagery of Gothic, Catherine Spooner; 7. Gothic Fiction and Queer Theory, George E. Haggerty; Part IV. Theorizing the Gothic in Modern Media; 8. 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 Poststructuralism; 10. The Gothic as a Theory of Symbolic Exchange, David Collings; 11. Incorporations: The Gothic and Deconstruction, Tilottama Rajan; 12. Dark Materialism: Gothic Objects, Commodities, and Things, Fred Botting; 13. Thinking the Thing: The Outer Reaches of Knowledge in Lovecraft and Deleuze, Anna Powell; 14. 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; Index.