Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900

Acknowledgments

acknow ledgments A number of people made important contributions to Ashes of the Mind along the way, most of which remain as unpaid debts on my part. The list must begin with Barbara Packer and Michael North at UCLA, who always had both a sympathetic ear and an exacting eye for the project , and who continued to be generously available for intellectual and scholarly advising long afterward. Special thanks for responses and suggestions on particular themes and chapters are owed to Joan Waugh, Richard Yarborough (who told me once, “You’d have to dig for days to reach irony in Dunbar’s poetry”), and Maurice Lee. Cristanne Miller, my former department chair at Pomona College, encouraged me at a crucial moment and pointed me in the right direction. Clark Dougan and others at the University of Massachusetts Press made being a first-time academic author as painless an experience as possible. Finally, Emmy Goldknopf devoted a lot more attention to the development of this book than she should have, for which I’m endlessly grateful. Chapter 3 first appeared in Prospects: A Journal of American Cultural Studies 29 (2004): 251–88, under the title “The Road from Memorial Hall: Future Imperfect in The Bostonians”; it is reprinted here in a slightly different form with permission from Cambridge University Press. xi Ashes of the Mind ...