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A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s The stories I tell in this book—of banishment and social exclusion—bear no resemblance to the story of what it was like to write it. Over the course of the many years it took to research and write this book, I experienced a sense of inclusion—of making new friends and connecting in new ways with old friends—that exceeded my wildest expectations. Sally Gordon, Hilary Schor, and Robin West deserve special thanks not only for taking the time to talk with me about my work on many different occasions, but also for making it possible for me to air some of my ideas in friendly but rigorous settings. At the West Coast Conference on Law and Literature at the University of Southern California, I had the good fortune to receive detailed critiques of an early version of my argument from Gary Rowe and Clyde Spillenger and invaluable feedback from Cynthia Herrup, Heather James, Rebecca Lemon, Peter Mancall, and Hilary Schor, among others. At the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, I benefited from the comments of Elaine Crane, Sally Gordon, Daniel Richter, and Richard Ross, among others. At Georgetown University Law Center, I had the privilege of leading a faculty seminar on law and humanities in which I assigned some of my work in progress and benefited from insightful and engaged responses from Martha Ertman, Heidi Feldman, Karen Knop, Allegra MacLeod, Naomi Mezey, Shari Motro, Michael Seidman, Mortimer Sellers, Jerry Spann, Adrienne Stone, Adam Thurschwell, Philomila Tsoukala, and Robin West, among others. Many people at the University of Colorado also helped me work through issues of interest to me. I had a conversation with Marjorie MacIntosh only two or three weeks into my research for the book, which helped me pinpoint banishment within the context of English criminal law and spared me much aimless searching. Only a little later, conversations with Valerie Forman, David Glimp, Elizabeth Robertson, William Kuskin, Richelle Munkhoff, and Katherine Eggert greatly enriched my understanding of the late medieval and 204 Acknowledgments early modern worlds in England, which were for my subjects just a stone’s throw away in time and space. Other friends and colleagues, including Pompa Banerjee, Ćeline Dauverd, Anne Lester, Deepti Misri, Sue Zemka, Michael Zimmerman, and other members of the 2009–10 Center for Humanities and the Arts Seminar on Migration read portions of my work and asked illuminating questions about it. I want especially to thank Jane Garrity and Karen Jacobs, who commented on selected pieces of the book, listened to me talk about banishment even when they would rather have been sleeping, shared endless meals with me, and made me feel at home when home seemed far away. Karen Jacobs was especially helpful in clarifying big-picture ideas and rendering the logic of my introduction and conclusion legible. Two visiting scholars to the University of Colorado helped me, almost certainly without their knowing it, orient myself with respect to the law under consideration: Harry Berger Jr. gave an eye-opening talk in the spring of 2007 on Shakespeare’s Henry V; and Victoria Kahn, with Lorna Hutson, conducted a fascinating two-day workshop in the spring of 2009 on early modern English common law. My greatest thanks, however, go to one person in particular, who shaped this work in ways that mark its overall spirit as well as each of its pages. Teresa Toulouse guided my efforts at every stage, from pointing me to previously unknown source materials, to asking me generous yet trenchant questions, to commenting on draft after draft until her fingers were cramped from writing . In countless conversations over coffee, tea, wine, and the occasional frozen yogurt, she shared her vast knowledge of and insights into early America and its denizens—their habits of mind, their deepest concerns, their many contradictions—until the seventeenth century came alive with the power that the reconstructed villages of Sturbridge, Mystic, and Plymouth once held for me as a child. Talking with and learning from Terry about this period and its texts were among the greatest pleasures I have known. An interdisciplinary work at its core, Banished also benefited from the many conversations I had with scholars on the legal side of the interdiscipline . Emily Calhoun helped me sort through many legal issues pertinent to the book in the course of team teaching a class with me on legal rhetoric...

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