Maud Ellmann - The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud

Maud Ellmann

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This book was completed while I was the Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where I received generous support for my research, especially from Christopher Fox, the Director of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Many other friends, colleagues, and students have contributed to this book. My greatest debts are to Annie Janowitz and John Wilkinson, who have seen this project develop over several years, and have provided invaluable criticism and encouragement at every stage. Anita Sokolsky, Stephen Tifft, Jessa Leff, and David Hillman were kind enough to read the manuscript, offering shrewd, imaginative criticism. In addition, the book has benefited from conversations with Isobel Armstrong, Derek Attridge, Gillian Beer, Peter de Bolla, Rachel Bowlby, Ronald Bush, Stefan Collini, Margaret Doody, Lucy Ellmann, Stephen Ellmann, Judith Farquhar, Christine Froula, John Limon, Luke Gibbons, Heather Glen, Graham Hammill, Jeri Johnson, Colin MacCabe, Josephine McDonagh, Todd McEwan, Ruth Morse, Ian Patterson, Jean-Michel Rabat, Neil Reeve, Nicholas Royle, David Trotter, and Robert Young. I have also had the pleasure of collaborating with Marilyn Reizbaum, who is the co-author of the section on Joyces story Two Gallants in . A fellowship from the National Humanities Center gave me the opportunity to pull the project together, and I wish to thank the director Geoffrey Harpham, the co-director Kent Mullikan, the librarians Eliza Robertson, Josiah Drewry, and Jean Houston, and all the staff and fellows, especially Judith Farquhar, Kate Flint, Elizabeth Helsinger, Alison Keith, Nigel Smith, and Alex Wettlaufer, who made my stay in North Carolina so rewarding and enjoyable. At Notre Dame, John Sitter was kind enough to lend me his research assistant, Michael Norris, whose painstaking work on my bibliography saved me weeks of labor. Kate Ravin offered astute criticism and editorial advice in the final stages of revising the book. Hilary Fox was kind enough to produce the index and to help with the proofreading. I also wish to thank my editors at Cambridge University Press, Ray Ryan and Maartje Sheltens, and my project manager Emma Wildsmith, for all the time and effort they have invested in my book.

It saddens me that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, who contributed so much to my personal and intellectual life, died before I could express my gratitude in these acknowledgements. Eves fearless, brilliant, deeply principled work has inspired two generations of scholars, poets, and activists, and will continue to reverberate for decades to come. To have been her friend was an incalculable blessing.