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An admirable point : a brief history of the exclamation mark! / Florence Hazrat.

by Hazrat, Florence.

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English language -- Punctuation.

Exclamation point.

9781567927870 (pbk.)

175 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

"First published in Great Britain by Profile Books, Ltd. in 2022."--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier whose flamboyantly dramatic gesture lets the reader know: here be feelings! F. Scott Fitzgerald famously stated exclamation marks are like laughing at your own joke; English author Terry Pratchett had a character say that multiple !!! are a 'sure sign of a diseased mind'. With charm, humor, and insight, Florence Hazrat explores how '!' first came into use six hudred years ago and uncovers the many ways in which it has left its mark on art, literature, pop culture, and just about every spehere of human activity -- from Beowulf and spam emails to E.E. Cummings and neuroscience. 'An Admirable Point' reclaims the exclamation mark from its much maligned place at the bottom of the punctuation hierarchy."--Jacket.

Florence Hazrat is a writer and researcher from Germany, working on punctuation in language and culture, and on Renaissance literature. Before she discovered her secret passion for the exclamation point she was a fellow at the Universityof Sheffield, studying brackets in early modern literature, and at the Universityof Geneva, working on Shakespeare translations. Florence has been educated at the Universityof Cambridge and the University of St Andrews where she has received her PhD on refrains in sixteenth-century poetry and drama. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker, making programs about literature for a general audience.

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