This book explores the concept of 'quiet' - an aesthetic of
narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the
term's application to the study of contemporary American fiction.
In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps
the neglected history of quiet fictions, arguing that from Hester
Prynne to Clarissa Dalloway, from Bartleby to William Stoner, the
Western tradition is filled with quiet characters. Secondly, it
asks what it means for a novel to be quiet and how we might read
for quiet in an American literary tradition that critics so often
describe as noisy. Examining recent works by Marilynne Robinson,
Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, among others, the book argues that quiet
can be a multi-faceted state of existence, one that is
communicative and expressive in as many ways as noise but filled
with potential for radical discourse by its marginalisation as a
mode of expression. -- .
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