Arthur Redding: 3 books
Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers
Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially...
Radical Legacies
Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
What use is thinking? This study addresses the ways in which modern American thinkers have intervened in the public sphere and attempted to mediate relations between social and political institutions and cultural and intellectual production. Chapters on both well-known (Henry Adams, Langston Hughes,...
Haints
American Ghosts, Millennial Passions, and Contemporary Gothic Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
In Haints, Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage.
Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting witnesses...