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Book SynopsisAnne Toner examines how ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - are so often fundamental to literary meaning. Her unique study traces their development from the sixteenth century to the present day, featuring the work of major English writers, including Jonson, Shakespeare, Richardson, Sterne, Meredith and Woolf.
Trade Review'This is a fine book, written with wit, flair, and brio. Economy gives its argument the verve and tautness of an essay, while Toner's rich range of reference reverberates much farther.' Kathryn Sutherland, Cambridge Quarterly
'[Toner] does not pursue a handful of extensive close readings or author-centred chapters: she sprints with wonderful concision and economy through five centuries of English literature …' Owen Boynton, Essays in Criticism
Table of ContentsIntroduction: observing the ellipsis; 1. Ellipsis marks in early printed drama; 2. Chasms and the eighteenth-century novel; 3. Ellipsis and the ends of novels; 4. Nineteenth-century 'explorations in Dot-and-Dashland'; 5. Ellipsis and modernity.
