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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Iwould like to thank Michael Bérubé and Eric Zinner for supporting this project . I am also grateful to my anonymous reader for alerting me to problems in my argument that needed fixing. Individuals who helped me write specific chapters are credited at the end of each chapter. Heather Love provided invaluable help in preparing the final manuscript. Above all, I owe an enormous debt to Allan Megill for his kindness, wisdom, scholarship, and infinite patience. Most of the chapters in this book have been published previously. In most cases they have been revised, sometimes substantially. I would like to thank PMLA, New Formations, Women: A Cultural Review, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , New Literary History, Continuum, Cultural Critique, and Penn State University Press for permission to reprint. Full details of the original publication are given at the end of each chapter. [18.189.170.17] Project MUSE (2024-04-16 20:36 GMT) I I ...

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