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. Jerrold E. Hogle is Professor of English Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona. Robert Miles is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.