Gendered Lyric: Subjectivity and Difference in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Since the work that would coalesce into this book dates back to my graduate studies at Cornell University and beyond, I have over a decade of appreciation to express and many people to thank for the intellectual exchanges and human kindness that nurtured my research. I would like to thank these professors, mentors, friends, for their guidance and for teaching me so much and so well about poetry and feminism: Anne Berger, Phil Lewis, Nelly Furman, Philippe Hamon, Patsy Baudoin, and Domna Stanton. To the other members of my Ithaca family, Brigitte Mahuzier and Katrina Perry, I am always and in every way beholden. I extend my appreciation to Brown University for its generous support of my work, and particularly for granting me a semester's research leave with a Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship . Thanks go to my colleagues in French Studies at Brown, and especially to Lewis Seifert, whose solidarity and intelligence have meant so much to me. For critiquing chapters with sharp insight and good humor I am indebted to Elizabeth Francis' and Tamar Katz. Thanks go to the editors at Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures for supporting my project and for their expert guidance in assisting me to see this book through to its final form, and to the anonymous reviewers for their extremely helpful feedback . I would also like to thank Seth Whidden for his invaluable research assistance and buoyant enthusiasm for French poetry. For their encouragement and hand-holding, I extend my deep appreciation to my family: my admirable grandmothers, my sister Karen Iverson, and my parents, to whom I dedicate this book. Loving thanks go to my dear friends Evie Lincoln, Jill Pipher, and Amy Remensnyder for their support and companionship . Carolyn Dean, buddy and brilliant colleague, has my affectionate appreciation for the serious and silly ways she helped me see this project through to its end. Finally, I would like to express my warm gratitude to Henry Majewski, who generously read nearly every word of my manuscript, gently offered his invaluable criticism, and sustained me with his devoted friendship. xiii Acknowledgments Sections of this book were previously published in slightly different form: "Gender and the Sonnet: Marceline DesbordesValmore and Paul Verlaine," in Cincinnati Romance Review 10 (1991): 190-99; "Loathsome Movement: Pamassian Politics and Villard's Revenge," in Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century French Culture, ed. Barbara T. Cooper and Mary Donaldson-Evans (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), 169-81; and "Sexualites de Verlaine," in the Revue Verlaine 5 (1997): 46-59. xiv ...