Dr. Anne Toner
Research Interests
My research focuses on literary style, mainly in eighteenth and nineteenth-century fiction and I am especially interested in the depiction of speech and thought in novels of this period. I have worked on Jane Austen's writing in this regard and my current research is concerned with the presentation of dialogue in eighteenth-century fiction. I have an ongoing interest in the punctuation of literary works, typography, and the history of the book.
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Publications
Books
Jane Austen's Style: Narrative Economy and the Novel's Growth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Edited Collections
(co-ed.), special issue of Persuasions On-Line, 38, 2 (Spring, 2018), on Sanditon: 200 Years, ed. Susan Allen Ford and Anne Toner
(ed.), Visible Language, Special Issue: "Punctuation", ed. Anne Toner, 45, 1/2 (2011)
(co-ed.), Mar(k)ing the Text: The Presentation of Meaning on the Literary Page, ed. Joe Bray, Miriam Handley and Anne C. Henry (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)
Selected Articles and Chapters in Books
"Jane Austen Jotting: The Manuscript of Sanditon and the Question of Style", in special issue of Persuasions On-Line, 38, 2 (Spring, 2018), ed. Susan Allen Ford and Anne Toner
"Free Speech: Jane Austen, Robert Bage, and the Subversive Shapes of Dialogue", Textus: English Studies in Italy, 3 (2017), pp. 167-188. Special issue ed. Serena Baiesi, Carlotta Farese and Katie Halsey
"Apophatic Austen: Speaking about Silence in Austen's Fiction", XVII-XVIII, Revue de la Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIII siècles, 73 (2016)
"Landscape as Literary Criticism: Jane Austen, Anna Barbauld and the Narratological Application of the Picturesque", Critical Survey, Special Issue: "Jane Austen", 26, 1 (2014), 3-19
""A 'Said He' or a 'Said She'": Speech Attribution in Austen's Fiction", Persuasions 34 (2012), 140-149
"Anna Barbauld on Fictional Form in The British Novelists (1810)", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Special issue: "Form and Formalism in the British Eighteenth-Century Novel", ed. John Richetti, 24, 2 (Winter 2011-12), 171-193
"Seeing Punctuation", in Visible Language, Special Issue: "Punctuation" 45, 1/2 (2011), 7-18
"Jane Austen, Frances Sheridan, and the Ha-Ha: A new affiliation for Mansfield Park", Persuasions 32 (2010), 224-231
[Anne C. Henry], "Tragedy and the Sign of the Eclipse", in Tragedy in Transition, ed. by Sarah Annes Brown and Catherine Silverstone (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), pp. 78-102
[Anne C. Henry], "Blank Emblems: The Vacant Page, the Interleaved Book and the Eighteenth-Century Novel", Word and Image 22.4, 2006, 363-71