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Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments ix I would first of all like to thank Dalia Judovitz for her guidance and friendship since the very beginning of this project. She inspired me to study early modern fictions, and continued to encourage me beyond graduate studies. I am very grateful to the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University for the Summer Faculty Fellowship that allowed me to continue research on the literary tomb. I am also very grateful to the Department of French and Italian of Indiana University for financial support for production expenses. I would like to express warm thanks to Kathleen Wine for a careful reading of the manuscript and for sharing her most recent work with me. I would also like to thank Amy Wygant of the University of Glasgow for her assistance in my study of emblems. The discussion of emblems in chapter four is taken from an article entitled “From Emblem to Portrait: Early Modern Notions of Selfhood in Novels by Honoré d’Urfé and Charles Sorel,” which I contributed to Glasgow Emblem Studies. I thank Alison Adams and Amy Wygant, editors of the journal, for their permission to use material from my article. The illustrations in the Appendix are reprinted with permission . I am grateful to the Newberry Library, and especially John Powell, for allowing me to reproduce the Alciato emblem. Thanks are also due the Bibliothèque nationale de France for permission to reproduce Crispin de Passe’s engraving entitled Le portrait de Charite. Many thanks go to Karen Atkins of University Information Technology Services for her prompt help during computer emergencies. I thank Allen G. Wood and Floyd Merrell of Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures for their patience and careful consideration of my manuscript. I also thank Susan Y. Clawson, the production editor of Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures , for her meticulous care and attention during the production of this book. Greatest thanks to George E. Barker, my life partner, without whose love, support, and optimism this book would never have been possible. ...