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Acknowledgments Without initial support from John Bender, Lois Brooks, Mike Keller, Makoto Tsuchitani, and Ramón Saldívar, this work would not have been started. Without ongoing support from the Stanford University Department of English and the Stanford University Library, this work would not have continued. For years Glen Worthey has been my text pusher, my sounding board, my trusted digital humanities colleague, and my friend. His contributions to the completion of this project are innumerable. From Franco Moretti I have learned and been given much. Our partnership over the past seven years has been the most rewarding collaboration of my career. A special thank-you goes to Susan Schreibman, who convinced me to put these ideas into a book and then read drafts and offered kind and honest feedback. I thank Alan Liu for being such a generous and thoughtful reader of an early draft of the first few chapters; we should all be such gracious scholars. Stéfan Sinclair provided a careful and expert review of the entire manuscript, and I could not have asked for a better reader of the work. For chapter 8, David Mimno was essential; he indulged my layman’s questions about latent Dirichlet allocation with kindness and good humor. For chapter 9, Elijah Meeks was similarly tolerant and gave his time, energy, and expertise to help me understand and leverage the power of Gephi. For patient advice with R in particular and statistics more generally, I acknowledge indirect contributions from Vijoy Abraham, Claudia Engel, Ken Romeo, and Daniela Witten. For their direct and essential contributions to the final manuscript, I thank my copy editor, Annette Wenda, along with the top-notch University of Illinois Press team, especially Bill Regier and Tad Ringo, who fostered this project through to completion. A special and personal thank-you to my wife, Angela, who has been a patient reader, thoughtful editor, and tolerant friend for more than twenty years. Jockers_Text.indd 9 1/11/13 3:05 PM x Acknowledgments Importantly, enthusiastically, and with deep appreciation, I acknowledge my debt to the students who enrolled in my first course in “macroanalysis” at Stanford. I doubt that a future group of students could ever capture the enthusiasm and excitement of that year. Their energy and earnestness were the catalyst behind the founding of the Stanford Literary Lab, and they have been in my mind most often in the writing of this book: Richard Alvarez, Cameron Blevins, Ryan Heuser, Nadeen Kharputly, Rachel Kraus, Alison Law, Long LeKhac , Rhiannon Lewis, Madeline Paymer, Moritz Sudhof, Amir Tevel, Ellen Truxaw, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Connie Zhu, you are all, quite simply, the best a teacher could hope for. Jockers_Text.indd 10 1/11/13 3:05 PM ...

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