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Acknowledgments I wish to thank Professor Sydney J. Krause, general editor of The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown, for introducing me in the early 1990s to Brown’s historical writing, and being a source of scholarly support for so many years. I also want to express my gratitude to Institute for Bibliography and Editing at Kent State University, Special Collections at Bowdoin College Library, the Clifton Waller-Barrett Collection at the University of Virginia, the American Antiquarian Society, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas–Austin, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Interlibrary Loan and the Graduate School at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln , and the Interlibrary Loan office at the University of Central Florida. I am particularly thankful for the help of James Green, who always had ready knowledge of eighteenth-century print culture—along with the much valued library, reference, reproduction, and other assistance of Linda August, Vincent Golden, Cornelia King, Richard Harrison, Nicole Joniec, Phil Lapsanski, Cheryl Mahan, Karen Mansfield, Charlene Peacock, Nola Pettit, Erika Piola, Sara Weatherwax, Kate Wilson, and other librarians over the years. Charles Mignon provided generous dissertation direction and support while I was at the University of Nebraska, and Sharon Harris, Robert Stock, Robert Narveson, and Ken Winkle, along with Patrice Berger and George Wolf, also contributed significantly to my ideas and critical sensibility during those formative years. Since coming to the University of Central Florida, many colleagues have supported my work. In addition to Rose Beilor, Lisa Logan, Kevin Meehan, and Rick Schell, I am grateful to Dawn Trouard, David Wallace, Kathy Seidel, and José Fernandez for their academic support and for release time at the University of Central Florida. Such support and resources over the years have been invaluable. I am grateful to Larry Buell, Bruce Burgett, Mary Chapman, Michael Cody, Ray Craig, Jared Gardner, Thomas Gillan, Sean Goudie, Philip Gould, Norman Grabo, Janie Hinds, John Holmes, David Levin, Robert Levine, Chris Looby, Carla Mulford, Jeffrey Richards, Wolfgang Schäfer, David Shields, Frank Shuffelton , Fredrika Teute, Wil Verhoeven, Michael Warner, Bryan Waterman, Alfred Weber, and Ed White for their answers to questions, reading of materials, generous suggestions, sharing of resources, and overall support for scholarship on ix Brown. Each helped shape my understanding of Brown, his contemporaries, and the period. I am also thankful to members of the Charles Brockden Brown Society , and the Society for Early Americanists for their interest in my work and that of Brown’s. I also want to thank Joanne Hogan of Proquest’s American Periodical Series Online, and Remmel Nunn and Georgia Frederick of the Readex Corporation for help with access to Archive of Americana databases, namely the American State Papers; Early American Imprints, series 1: Evans; Early American Imprints series 2: Shaw-Shoemaker 1801–1819; and Early American Newspapers. Over the years, these research tools have made all the difference. Likewise, I am grateful to Joyce Harrison, Mary Young, and especially Erin Holman for their expert advice and editing at Kent State University Press. Last, I want to give special thanks to Philip Barnard, Seth Cotlar, Fritz Fleischmann , John Larson, Stephen Shapiro, Karen Weyler, and the anonymous press readers. They read the entire manuscript, or significant parts of it; offered rich commentary and provocative questions I hope that I have addressed with some success; and variously inspired me to complete the book. Philip Barnard, expert on electronic databases and British periodicals, provided invaluable information about Brown’s authorship and has significantly updated Brown bibliographical scholarship. Without their insights, the manuscript would not be what it is. I also wish to thank Joanna Hildebrand Craig of the Kent State University Press, and Karol George Kamrath, my wife, for their support; both have patiently waited for, and gently encouraged, completion of this book over many years. x acknowledgments ...

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