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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 to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history. No matter how much Americans willingly or unwillingly repress the true history of their ancestry; their ghosts remain unburied and restless.

National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Collective memory in literature. --- Ghosts in literature. --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American --- Ghost stories, American --- American gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- American fiction --- American ghost stories --- History and criticism.

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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 and neglected public intellectuals address problems of critical dissent during wartime, the contemporary crisis of the humanities under neoliberalism, and the perils of consumer culture and popular taste, arguing that any ""use-value"" theory of intellectual production is limiting.

Intellectuals --- Literature and society --- War and literature --- Dissenters --- Criticism --- Radicals --- History --- Dissidents --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Conformity --- Literature and war --- Literature