Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments While writing this book, I have been inspired by and supported by many people. I would like to thank those who challenged and guided me as I began developing this project: Deborah Elise White, Deepika Bahri, Walter Kalaidjian, Mark McWatt, and Martine Watson Brownley. I am especially indebted to my mentor and advisor , Martine Watson Brownley, who has given so much to me and to this project. I am a better scholar, a better writer, and a better teacher because she took me under her wing. I would also like to thank all of the fellows and staff members at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Emory University Department of English faculty and staff members, those who assisted me at the Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Daniel Library, and the graduate students who helped me make my work better. My colleagues in the English Department at The Citadel deserve many thanks for providing me with advice and encouragement as I made final revisions. I also thank the editor of the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, for making this book a reality. Last but not least, my family and friends have been incredibly supportive of this project; I thank them for their enthusiasm and love. I also want to thank the departments, centers, and societies that have supported my research: the Emory University Department of English, the Emory Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, the Emory Department of Women's Studies, the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the Hemingway Society, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, the MargaretAtwood Society, and The Citadel Foundation. Parts of chapter 2 and chapter 4 were published in different forms in the journals Modern Fiction Studies and The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, respectively. I am grateful to the editors of both of them for the permission to reprint those essays here. This page intentionally left blank. ...