Cultural secrets as narrative form: storytelling in nineteenth-century America

2004 ChoiceReviews  
For here were God knew how many citizens, deliberately choosing not to communicate. . . . It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. . . . [T]his withdrawal was their own, unpublicized, private. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?) there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world.
doi:10.5860/choice.42-0812 fatcat:e363brs6nveztccfl5vptoemjy