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Acknowledgments

I am grateful for the questions and comments from several audiences who heard parts of this work as it unfolded—at meetings of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the Modern Language Association, at the English Department Colloquium at the University of Illinois at Chicago, at the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Cultures Workshop at the University of Chicago, and at the Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities.

I want to add particular thanks to Jennifer Ashton, Lauren Berlant, Jessica Berman, John Bugg, Jim Chandler, Ralph Cintròn, Jenny Davidson, Lennard Davis, Stephen Engelmann, Andy Franta, Lisa Freeman, Linda Gregerson, Sharon Holland, Oren Izenberg, Justin Joyce, Anna Kornbluh, Kevin Lamb, Zach Lamm, Michael Lieb, Sandra Macpherson, Dwight McBride, Walter Michaels, Davide Panagia, Larry Poston, Christina Pugh, Richard Sha, and Sarah Zimmerman. They commented on arguments, suggested reading, read chapters, or offered encouragement as the book progressed.

Thanks are also due to Matt McAdam, my editor at the Johns Hopkins University Press, for his early and continued support for the project, and to Colin Jager, the reader for the Press, who offered extraordinarily detailed insights on every chapter and helped to make this book better. Joanne Allen’s copyediting corrected many errors and infelicities in my writing. Rob Kaufman gave the manuscript a complete reading that was both generous and rigorous, and I have only begun to think about some of his comments. Mary Beth Rose helped sharpen and expand arguments throughout the book; she also patiently listened to—and thoughtfully engaged—my arguments even in their earliest and sloppiest stages.

Parts of chapters 1 and 2 were published in an earlier form as “Doing Justice in Aesthetics,” Representations 95 (Summer 2006): 76–104.

I dedicate this book to my many teachers from whom I continue to learn, including Lynda K. Bundtzen, Sharon Cameron, Jerome Christensen, Frances Ferguson, Jan Glitzenstein, Leo Grant, Larry Graver, Paul Holdengräber, Mary Poovey, Chris Pye, Willard Spiegelman, Karen Swann, and Betty Winograd.