The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments My most general thanks go to the University of Colorado Denver—the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of English—for the support and encouragement that made this project possible, and to Cornell University Press—the editors, outside readers, and staff who supported and worked hard to make this book a reality. I am grateful to two journals, Victorian Literature and Culture, which published a prior incarnation of chapter 3, and ELH, which published an earlier version of chapter 1. I also thank my colleagues and friends who belong to the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, who have listened to and commented upon pieces of this work at conferences over the course of seven years. Thanks are due to those scholars who read drafts of various chapters and provided valuable corrections and suggestions: Christopher Clausen, Pennsylvania State University, whose suggestion led to the title of this book; Gabriel Finkelstein, University of Colorado Denver; Peter Harvey, University of Sunderland (England ); Bradford K. Mudge, University of Colorado Denver; Mark B. Tanzer, University of Colorado Denver, who monitored my treatment of philosophical texts; Steven J. Venturino, Loyola University Chicago; and Russell Webb and Sara Boin-Webb, former editors of Buddhist Studies Review (London). I am indebted especially to James Najarian of Boston College, who read the entire manuscript and whose knowledge and painstaking attention are evidenced throughout this book. Finally, my greatest debt of gratitude is owed to xii ~ Acknowledgments Peter J. Potter, Editor-in-Chief at Cornell, who from the first envisioned what this book might be at its best and whose expertise and skillful means guided me through a process of revision without which this book would not have fulfilled its promise. J.J.F. The Lotus and the Lion This page intentionally left blank. ...