TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: CURIOUS REVERBERATIONS -- THE TELLING SILENCES OF A GARRULOUS TUDOR -- DOOMED TO REMAIN ON THE PAGE? -- ACRASIA'S SILENT SONG AND VERBAL TEMPTATION AT THE BOWER OF BLISS IN EDMUND SPENSER'S THE FAERIE QUEENE -- SILENCING THE WORD AND WORDING THE UNSPOKEN -- PART II: FRAGILE PERSONALITIES AND SILENCED WOMEN -- "A VOICE IS WANTING" -- EMILY DICKINSON'S PSEUDO SILENCE -- GENTLEWOMEN IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH -- PART III: TRAUMATIC SILENCES -- THE SILENT MOTHERS OF RICHARD WRIGHT AND ZORA NEALE HURSTON -- "SONGS THAT VOICES NEVER SHARE" -- "SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE OF SHOOTING STARS" -- THE VOICE OF THE DEAD -- ANA CASTILLO -- TROPES OF SILENCE IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S SHAME -- THE PROVOCATIVE SILENCE OF KAZUO ISHIGURO'S CHARACTERS -- THE LOCATION AND NATURE OF LIMINAL SILENCES IN THE SHELTERING SKY -- PART IV: TELLING SILENCES -- TRANSLATING SILENCE -- SILENT PAUSES AND LEXICAL RETRIEVAL -- EMPTINESS IN PHONOLOGY -- A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF INVISIBLE ELEMENTS IN ENGLISH -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.