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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge with gratitude the financial support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which funded much of our travel and research assistance, and of the University of Victoria (UVic), which provided early seed funding for this project as well as a publication grant to bring it to press. We also thank the editors of Victorian Studies for granting us permission to reprint sections of our article “The Plot Thickens: Toward a Narratological Analysis of Illustrated Serial Fiction in the 1860s” (vol. 51, no. 1 [2008]: 65–101).

In preparing the images for this book, we received assistance from many librarians and digitization experts, whom it is a pleasure to thank: Christopher Coutlee at the Toronto Reference Library; Mike Meade at the University of New Brunswick Libraries; Jeff Papineau at the Bruce Peel Special Collections, University of Alberta; Sue Plouffe at the Dana Porter Library, University of Waterloo; Paul Adair and Mark Simmons at Culture Perth and Kinross; Allison Wagner at the University of Calgary Library; and especially Jillian Sparks at the Queen’s University Library.

We also extend our thanks to the many colleagues from UVic, the Université Paul-Valéry–Montpellier III, Simon Fraser University, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at UVic (where we have taught and been taught), EdJoWriWe (Edinburgh Journal Article Writing Week at the University of Edinburgh), the North American Victorian Studies Association, the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, and the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada who have supported this project through their questions, suggestions, and encouragement over many conferences, colloquia, workshops, and years. Particular thanks go to Sophia Andres, Genie Babb, Susan Brown, Margaret Cameron, Claire Carlin, Hélène Cazes, Alison Chapman, Julie Codell, Simon Cooke, Susan Doyle, Erin Ellerbeck, Rebecca Gagan, Kristen Guest, Matt Huculak, Linda K. Hughes, Janelle Jenstad, Chris Keep, Erin Kelly, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Erik Kwakkel, Margaret Linley, Brian Maidment, Bob Patten, Nicole Shukin, Marie-Ève Thérenty, and Vanessa Warne.

We are immensely thankful to the University of Victoria Special Collections librarians who have, for over a decade, supported our research and teaching related to this book. The UVic archives have provided an invaluable research space for us and a training ground for our students, both undergraduate and graduate. Our deep gratitude goes out to librarians Heather Dean, John Frederick, Lawrence Hong, Jaqui Thompson, and Lara Wilson.

We are hugely grateful to the anonymous reviewers for Ohio University Press, whose generous, intelligent engagement with our initial manuscript helped us to produce the final version of our book. It has been a pleasure working with the editors and staff at Ohio University Press: Joseph McLaughlin and Elizabeth Miller, editors of the Series in Victorian Studies, whose support of our project we deeply appreciate; Rick Huard, who shepherded the project to press; Sally Welch, who generously answered many questions; Sally Bennett Boyington, who carefully copyedited the manuscript; Nancy Basmajian, managing editor, who saw the book through to print; and the many people involved in layout and design.

We offer thanks to our student research assistants, whose resourcefulness and intelligence inspire us always: Michael Carelse, Amy Coté, Jack Dempster, Olivia Ferguson, Renée Gaudet, Eric Henwood-Greer, Kelsey Kilbey, Sam McFarlane, and Renee Vander Meulen.

Finally, for their love and support during this project, which is older than some of them, we thank our family members: Sean, Jacob, and Jessie Hier; John, Michael, and Greg Adams; and Marie Surridge.