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Acknowledgments

Many minds contributed to this book at its various stages from shadowy notion to monograph. I would like to thank my mentors and colleagues at the University of Maryland. Jeanne Fahnestock, Orrin Wang, and major advisor Neil Fraistat suggested primary texts, combed through drafts with patience and interest, and commented with insistence. Compatriots Kate Singer, Joseph Byrne, and Elizabeth Whitney helpfully interrogated my ideas in the earlier drafts. My colleagues at Florida International University, especially Meri-Jane Rochelson, Kathleen McCormack, and Yvette Puggish, provided insights about the introductory discussion that clarified the whole project. My parents, Tom and Bonnie Kime Scott, provided the same intellectual support they always have, with perceptive readings of the introduction and the Keats section. My wife, Colleen Flaherty, a biological scientist and environmental policy expert, helped me recognize and elaborate on the essential disciplinary crossings blazed in these pages. The peer reviewers’ comments were crucial to the final organization of the book, and I thank them for their time and fair appraisals. Penn State University Press editor Kendra Boileau and her associates were a joy to work with in the last stages, as we honed the manuscript for its final audience, you, the reader. Thank you all.