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xi This work has benefited from the thoughts and comments of many readers, and it is a pleasure to be able to thank them here. My greatest debt is to the two scholars who codirected the doctoral dissertation that lies at the origin of this book, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet and Stephen G. Nichols; without them this study would hardly have been possible. I would also like to extend my warmest thanks to Werner Hamacher and Gabrielle Spiegel, who read and commented on the book at many stages of its preparation, improving it considerably , and to Neil Hertz, whose reflections on an earlier version of the book were a great help. The book has also profited significantly from the expert advice of Simon Gaunt, Sylvia Huot, and my colleague John Fleming. I am keenly aware of the enormous help given to me by Deborah Heller, Justine Landau, and Kevin Ohi, who all shared their thoughts about the manuscript with me more than once. To Patrick Greaney this book, like its author, owes a great deal. I would like also to express my deep gratitude to the institutions with which I had the good fortune of being associated in the years in which I composed this book: the Humanities Center of the Johns Hopkins University, the École Normale Supérieure of the rue d’Ulm, and, finally, the Department of Comparative Literature of Princeton University, whose faculty has offered me an intellectual and academic environment that is in many respects, for reading and writing alike, nothing short of ideal. A first draft of this project was completed with the assistance of a generous grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Acknowledgments This page intentionally left blank ...

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