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acknowledgments Preliminary research on this book was supported by Barbara Spackman, J. Hillis Miller, and Julia Reinhard Lupton, to whom I am grateful for comments and insight at an early stage of the project. More recently, I have benefited greatly from discussions with and criticism by colleagues at the University of Utah and elsewhere. At Utah, I want in particular to thank Scott Black, Vince Cheng, Andy Franta, Bruce Haley, Brooke Hopkins, Howard Horwitz, Anne Jamison, Stacey Margolis, Elijah Milgram, Vince Pecora, Kathryn Stockton, Jessica Straley, and Barry Weller. Gillian Brown and Barbara Johnson were important influences on my scholarship—they are both missed. I am particularly grateful to Charles Martindale and Liz Prettejohn, whose invitation to speak at a conference on decadence in Bristol (United Kingdom) in 2003 set the project on its current course. I also want to thank Tom Albrecht, Stephen Arata, Megan Becker-Leckrone, Jennifer Birkett, Marshall Brown, Ellen Burt, Elicia Clements, Liz Constable, Colin Cruise, Whitney Davis, Richard Dellamora , Dennis Denisoff, Reginia Gagnier, Lauren Goodlad, Lesley Higgins, Richard Kaye, Philip Leider, Sharon Marcus, Michèle Mendelssohn, Julia Saville, Talia Schaffer, Elaine Showalter, Jeff Wallen, Carolyn Williams, and Julia Wright for their helpful comments, readings of drafts, willingness to share unpublished work, or invitations to present material from the project. Thanks go as well to Jerry Singerman at the University of Pennsylvania Press for seeing value in this project, and for directing the manuscript to the two anonymous readers whose reports helped me improve the book. I want to express my appreciation to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation for early support in the form of a Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship, and to the Career Development Committee of the College of Humanities at the University of Utah for granting me the sabbatical that allowed me to finish the book. I am above all grateful to my family—Anna, Zoe, Noah, and my parents— who cheerfully tolerated and enabled my all-too-common retreats into my study. This book is for them. 232 acknowledgments Portions of this book have appeared in other publications. An earlier version of Chapter 3 was published as “Decadence, Nationalism, and the Logic of Canon Formation,” in MLQ 67, 2 (2006): 213–44, and is reprinted by permission of Duke University Press. A portion of Chapter 4 appeared in different form as “Fear of Falling: Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean as a Dangerous Influence,” in ELH 65 (1998): 701–29. Parts of Chapter 5 were published as “The Decadent Counterpublic” in Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48 (2007); and as “Literary Communism: Pater and the Politics of Community,” in Victorian Aesthetic Conditions: Pater Across the Arts, ed. Elicia Clements and Lesley J. Higgins (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 185–204. I thank the respective copyright holders for permission to republish these essays. ...

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