Empire and Pilgrimage in Conrad and Joyce

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I am deeply indebted to Thomas Jackson Rice, my mentor and friend, for invaluable insight, motivation, and an example of exceptional scholarship . Sebastian Knowles gave me useful suggestions and asked challenging questions, as did Georgia Johnston and the anonymous reviewer of the manuscript. I am also grateful to other people who have been generous readers and commented on all or some parts of the manuscript: Kevin Dettmar, Meili Steele, Kevin Lewis, Ed Madden, Jeanne Garane, Julia Levin, Sarah Allen, Warren Rosenberg, Crystal Benedicks, Robert Royalty, and David Blix. My thanks go to Wiesław Krajka for scholarly guidance when this project was in its infancy and to my mother, Maria Szczeszak, for my first lessons in English. I wish to thank several organizations and fellowships for their generous support of my research. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded me a stipend to participate in the summer 2007 seminar on Ulysses at Trinity College, Dublin. I would like to thank the seminar’s participants for inspiration and encouragement. My thanks also go to the Wabash College Dean’s Office, the English Department, and the college’s Faculty Development Fund as well as its Byron K. Trippet research fund. I also received support from the Newberry Library in Chicago, the National Library of Ireland, and Trinity College Library, and travel grants from the International James Joyce Foundation and the Joseph Conrad Society of America. The Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Ambassadorial Scholars provided very generous funding for the first two years of my research. Chapter 5 is an expanded and revised version of “Conrad, Joyce, and the Development of Urban Psychological Cartographies,” an essay published in Beyond the Roots: The Evolution of Conrad’s Ideology and Art, edited by Wiesław Krajka (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005). xii · Acknowledgments Portions of chapter 6 appeared in “Teleology without a Telos? Constitutive Absence in James Joyce’s Pilgrimage” in Displacing the Center: Pilgrimage in a Mobile World, edited by Simon Coleman and John Eade, special issue of Mobilities 2 (November 2007): 347–62. I wish to thank the editors of these volumes for their kind permissions to reprint sections of my articles in this book. Above all, I would like to thank my husband, Josh Brewer, for his unconditional love, scholarly advice, and enormous patience, and my son, Kuba, for putting all my worries about commas and square brackets into perspective. ...