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Acknowledgments This collection of essays on monsters owes a debt of gratitude to the Ramon Guthrie Fund ofDartmouth College, which contributed generously to a conference organized on this topic some years ago at Dartmouth. The Guthrie Fund has also generously supported the publication of the volume. Thanks to Carol Peper for her efficient administration. The dean of the faculty of Dartmouth College also provided research support. I would especially like to thank Professor Patrick Rumble for his valuable comments on the volume in its manuscript form and the anonymous reader for Wayne State University Press, who offered helpful insights. For their advice and valuable comments on my own contributions to this volume, I would like to thank the members of the "Feminist Inquiry Seminar" of Dartmouth College, especially Marianne Hirsch and Melissa Zeiger. For their collegial spirit over the years and their friendship, I want to thank Walter Stephens, Graziella Parati, Nancy Canepa, and Lynn Higgins. Thanks are due to Nancy Harrowitz for many long, thoughtful, useful, exciting phone conversations on questions concerning monstrosity that dogged me for years. Thanks to Kathleen Corrigan for sharing her art-history expertise on the subject of monsters and for being willing to do it so often on our twin treadmills. At Wayne State University Press, my thanks go to Arthur Evans for his excellent advice in the shaping of the volume, to Kristin Harpster for heading the production project so expertly, and to Sandra Williams for superior editorial work. Thanks are due for generous moral support to my parents, William and Martha Jewell, to my sister, Maile Jewell, and to my husband, Claudio ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Pellegrini, for listening even when I waxed very theoretical about monsters and for putting up with many grotesque read-alouds. Thanks, finally, to Antonio Pellegrini for drawing good monsters and for being proud of a mom who is so interested in them. ...

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