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Acknowledgments

xi M Acknowledgments This project was supported in its early stages by a fellowship at the University of Washington. I am also grateful to the American Council of Learned Societies for a fellowship grant, to the University of Maryland for a faculty research fellowship, and to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Summer Stipend. An earlier version of Chapter 2 was published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 40.1 (March 1998): 78–96. A version of Intertext 3 appeared as “Literary Meaning and the Question of Value: Victorian Literary Interpretation” in Pedagogy 4.1 (2004): 27–41. Excerpts from Chapter 3 were published in “George Eliot and Philosophy” in The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot, ed. George Levine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001): 76–97. (Reprinted by permission.) Many have contributed to this book. I am indebted to George Levine, John McGowan, and Carolyn Williams, whose advice and encouragement have been invaluable. I owe much to Gary Handwerk, who encouraged my initial efforts from which this book developed. I also thank Charles Altieri, Kathleen Blake, and Richard Dunn, as well as the late Ernst Behler, whose seminar on hermeneutics helped shape my early thinking on this project. This book has benefited from the help of many other colleagues and friends in a variety of ways, and I would particularly like to thank Becca Bennett, Terri Hasseler, Jennifer Holberg, Gerhard Joseph, Jonathan Loesberg, and Andrew Miller. I am also grateful to Bernhard Kendler at Cornell University Press for his support of this project. Finally, my deepest thanks go to Elizabeth and David Anger, for their unflagging support, and, most of all, to Tom Bittner, for many discussions, and for his incisive thought and generous encouragement. S.A. xii Acknowledgments M VICTORIAN INTERPRETATION This page intentionally left blank. ...