Eclipse of Empires: World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

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Acknowledgments A version of thefourthchapterof thisbookhaspreviouslybeenpublishedas“North­ men and Native Ameri­cans: The Politics of Landscape in the Age of Longfellow,” NewEnglandQuarterly80.3(2007):435–58.IthanktheNewEnglandQuarterly for permission to republish it here. Financial support for this project has been provided by the Stanford Humanities CenterTheodoreH.and FrancesK.GeballeDissertationFellowship;the Stan­ ford University English Department Tomas Killefer Dissertation Fellowship; the Friends of the Longfellow House Stanley Paterson Fellowship; and the Ameri­can Antiquarian Society Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship. The Syra­ cuse University College of Arts and Sciences awarded me a vital research leave to work on the book. Ioweadebtofgratitudetotheintellectualcommunitiesat theAmeri­canAntiquarian Society (AAS) and the Longfellow House National His­ toric Site, especially Anita Israel, Georgia B. Barnhill, Paul J. Erickson, Lauren B. Hewes, ­ Elizabeth Watts Pope, Laura E. Wasowicz, and the fall 2008 AAS research ­ fellows. This book bears the marks of the shrewd and perceptive guidance provided to me in the early stages of the project by Gavin Jones, Albert Gelpi, and the late Jay Fliegelman. Todd Dapremont, Joel Burges, Dawn Coleman, and Christopher Phillips gave me encouragement and intelligent advice during the project’s formative period. My colleagues in the Syracuse University English Department have been an exceptional source of intellectual and moral support, especially the members of the faculty writing group: Jeanne Britton, Manan Desai, Carol Fadda-­Conrey, Mike Goode, Roger Hallas, Christopher Hanson, Rory Loughnane, Erin Mackie, Kevin Morrison, Stephanie Shirilan, Linda Shires, Vincent Stephens, and Monika Wadman . Amy Lang has been a generous and committed mentor. Susan Edmunds’s wise advice has been invaluable, but her friendship has mattered even more to me. Eric Wertheimer and the other anonymous reviewer for the University of Alabama Press made this a much better book than it would otherwise have been, and I am indebted to them for their rigorous and thoughtful feedback. My experience x / Acknowledgments of working with the University of Alabama Press has been consistently rewarding. IthankDanWatermanforhisprofessionalismandhisbeliefinthisproject.Robin DuBlanc’s skillful and careful copyediting respected my prose but improved it. Debora Burgard and Dennis McKillop have helped me to realize how much joy my work brings me. Mary Brinig, Karen Gross, Crisi Benford, Jessica Straley, and Sinead Mac Namara have put up with a lot and kept me (mostly) sane. This book is in honor of Robert D. Frandsen and his family. It is dedicated to David,Margaret,Stephen,Michael,Brian,andChristinaRoylance,withmydeepest love and gratitude for their support. Eclipse of Empires ...