Ellipsis in English Literature

Auteur

Anne Toner is a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Texte du rabat

A history of ellipsis marks and their functions in major works of English literature over the past 500 years.

Résumé
Anne 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.

Contenu

Introduction: 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.