American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I am grateful to those who offered valuable advice on various portions of the manuscript: Dennis Allen (who was kind enough to read it all), Laura Brady, Michelle Burnham, Kathleen Diffley, Jim Egan, Carla Mulford, Dana Nelson. Lawrence Buell deserves particular thanks for reading the manuscript for the University of Pennsylvania Press. I have drawn additional insight from conversations or correspondence with colleagues at West Virginia University and elsewhere, including Ralph Bauer,Jonathan Burton, Amy Howard Green, Mark Kamrath, Tom Kinnahan, Robert Markley, Donald Ross, Jr., Gordon Sayre, Laura Sayre, James Schramer, AndyVann, and the students in my 1999 American Studies seminar. My editor, Eric Halpern, has been a pleasure to work with. Most of all I am grateful for Laura's loving and patient support throughout what has been a long project. * * * A summer research grant sponsored by the Radiological Consultants Association of West Virginia gave me a start on this project. A sabbatical leave funded byWest Virginia University enabled me to complete a good portion of the manuscript. Two chapters have appeared elsewhere in somewhat different form. An earlier version of Chapter 1 was published as "Economy, Ecology, and Utopia in Early Colonial Promotional Literature," American Literature 71, no. 3 (1999): 399-427. Copyright© 1999 by Duke University Press. Used by permission. An earlier version ofChapter 5 appeared as ''American Pastoralism and the Marketplace: Eighteenth-Century Ideologies of Farming," Early American Literature 29, no. 1 (1994): 59-80. Copyright© 1994 by the Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Used by permission. ...