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ix Acknowledgments I wish to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and my home institution, Simon Fraser University , for their generous support. I am also grateful to the many librarians and archivists in Britain, France, and the United States for their assistance, particularly Shawn C. Wilson at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University. I must also extend my thanks to the anonymous readers of my manuscript, whose comments and suggestions were invaluable, and to my editor Brian Halley at University of Massachusetts Press, as well as the rest of the staff, for their expert guidance throughout the publication process. Elisabeth Lyman, a professional translator based in Paris, is responsible for the skilled translations of the French passages quoted in the book. Paul Delany, Michele Vettorazzo, Eric Wredenhagen, Christine Kim, and Sarah Bull (my research assistant) offered helpful feedback on various parts of my manuscript, for which I am most appreciative, and Betty Schellenberg has been a big-hearted mentor. Finally, I thank my mom, Doris Colligan, for encouraging me always. An earlier version of chapter 7, with a somewhat different focus, appeared in Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century : Image, Sound,Touch, ed. Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley (Burlington,VT: Ashgate, 2011). “This page intentionally left blank” [3.129.23.30] Project MUSE (2024-04-24 19:03 GMT) A Publisher’s Paradise / “This page intentionally left blank” ...

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