Haints: American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions

Author:   Arthur F. Redding
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
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Pages:   164
Publication Date:   30 November 2019
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Author:   Arthur F. Redding
Publisher:   The University of Alabama Press
Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Weight:   0.262kg
ISBN:  

9780817359744


ISBN 10:   0817359745
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   30 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Redding's study will be an important contribution to the field of gothic studies. He is very well informed critically, and yet avoids most technical jargon, so that the book could be read by the interested undergraduate as well as the specialist. --Charles L. Crow, author of American Gothic, editor of American Gothic 1787-1916: An Anthology, and a founding member of the International Gothic Association. The specters that Redding stalks in this book bear no resemblance to the horrors conjured up by Horace Walpole or M. R. James. Redding's ghosts evoke the memory of the US's cultural past, suggesting that even though one may wish to lay some unsettling elements of the American heritage to rest, they will not stay buried. Redding ably demonstrates that in modern gothic works 'guilt cannot be fully assigned, ' 'making enacting justice especially troublesome because the destruction of innocence is a central fact of this genre. His argument is stimulating and powerful enough to entice even reluctant students to appreciate relationships between the fiction they are assigned to read and contemporary as well as past reality. The author draws his examples from a diverse collection of writers, a group as thought provoking as his argument. Redding's style will induce the reader to think the author is addressing him or her directly, a good way to encourage enthusiasm both for the literature and for the insights it provides. Summing Up: Highly recommended. --CHOICE Haints is an interesting and provocative study of manifestations of the Gothic in contemporary American culture. The writing is lively and [author's name] deftly integrates Derridean deconstruction (Specters of Marx, largely as filtered through Avery Gordon and Eric Savoy) with contemporary cultural studies. --Jeffrey Weinstock, author of Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women and Charles Brockden Brown: A Polemical Introduction Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Redding's book is culturally significant and worth reading. It is an important and provocative piece of cultural analysis. What I finally like best about the book is that it connects literary study with our ethical and political lives as American citizens. He shows that contemporary American gothic writers - pessimistic as they must be -- really are concerned with how we can live our lives truthfully in the present. --Terry Heller, author of The Delights of Terror and 'The Turn of the Screw' Bewildered Visions, and editor of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs & Other Fiction.


Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Redding's book is culturally significant and worth reading. It is an important and provocative piece of cultural analysis. What I finally like best about the book is that it connects literary study with our ethical and political lives as American citizens. He shows that contemporary American gothic writers - pessimistic as they must be -- really are concerned with how we can live our lives truthfully in the present. --Terry Heller, author of The Delights of Terror and 'The Turn of the Screw' Bewildered Visions, and editor of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs & Other Fiction. The specters that Redding stalks in this book bear no resemblance to the horrors conjured up by Horace Walpole or M. R. James. Redding's ghosts evoke the memory of the US's cultural past, suggesting that even though one may wish to lay some unsettling elements of the American heritage to rest, they will not stay buried. Redding ably demonstrates that in modern gothic works 'guilt cannot be fully assigned, ' 'making enacting justice especially troublesome because the destruction of innocence is a central fact of this genre. His argument is stimulating and powerful enough to entice even reluctant students to appreciate relationships between the fiction they are assigned to read and contemporary as well as past reality. The author draws his examples from a diverse collection of writers, a group as thought provoking as his argument. Redding's style will induce the reader to think the author is addressing him or her directly, a good way to encourage enthusiasm both for the literature and for the insights it provides. Summing Up: Highly recommended. --CHOICE Haints is an interesting and provocative study of manifestations of the Gothic in contemporary American culture. The writing is lively and [author's name] deftly integrates Derridean deconstruction (Specters of Marx, largely as filtered through Avery Gordon and Eric Savoy) with contemporary cultural studies. --Jeffrey Weinstock, author of Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women and Charles Brockden Brown: A Polemical Introduction Redding's study will be an important contribution to the field of gothic studies. He is very well informed critically, and yet avoids most technical jargon, so that the book could be read by the interested undergraduate as well as the specialist. --Charles L. Crow, author of American Gothic, editor of American Gothic 1787-1916: An Anthology, and a founding member of the International Gothic Association.


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Arthur Redding is professor of English at York University, Toronto, Canada, and is the author of Radical Legacies: Twentieth Century Public Intellectuals in the United States; Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War; and Raids on Human Consciousness: Writing, Anarchism, and Violence. .

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