Silence and Subject in Modern Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction: Cordelia’s Silence, or Spoken Violence

Chapter 2 The Exemplary Becomes Problematic, or Gendered Silence: Austen’s Mansfield Park

Chapter 3 The Secrets of Silence: Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , Musil’s ‘Tonka’

Chapter 4 Refusal, or The Mute Provocateurs: Melville’s Bartleby Meets Gombrowicz’s Ivona

Chapter 6 Interrogation, or Forced to Silence: Rankin, Harris, Pinter, Duras

Chapter 7 Literature as Coerced Speech: Handke’s Kaspar

Chapter 8 Epilogue: The Silence of the Sirens