ONeil-Henry - Mastering the marketplace popular literature in nineteenth-century France

I feel fortunate to have received so much supportprofessional and personalfrom many people over the course of this project. I would first like to thank my professors and mentors in the Romance Studies Department at Duke University. In particular, David Bell provided wonderful mentorship in all areas of the profession, and I am so glad to have worked with him. Thanks too to Deborah Jenson, Stephanie Sieburth, and Neil McWilliam, who gave me invaluable advice and guidance. I want to thank Helen Solterer and Linda Orr, who pushed me to think in challenging and creative ways. I am sincerely grateful for the encouragement and friendship of all my Duke graduate school colleagues.

Since my arrival in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University, I have felt welcomed and supported, and I am grateful to all of my colleagues for their help. Special thanks go to Sylvie Durmelat, Susanna Lee, Milna Santoro, Susan Terrio, and Paul Young for their feedback on my work and their support and friendship. I am especially indebted to Andrew Sobanet and Deborah Lesko Baker; they have helped me immeasurably in matters both personal and professional. Outside of my department I am grateful for my other Georgetown colleagues: Daniel Shore and Brian Hochman for their support and friendship, and Ashley Cohen and Nicole Rizzuto for reading portions of this book. We have a wonderful community of scholars in the DC area with whom I have had the pleasure of trading work. Lisa Leff, Elise Lipkovitz, Katrin Schultheiss, Urvashi Chakravarty, and Lindsay DiCuirci all read and gave important feedback on portions of this book. I want to extend very special thanks to Masha Belenky, Kathryn Kleppinger, Chelsea Stieber, and Erin Twohig for their attentive and patient readings of multiple parts of this project and for their collaboration and friendship.

This book is the product of research trips and archival work that would not have been possible without material support from the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown, the Graduate School of Georgetown, and the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown, for which I am thankful. I am thankful too for the help of research librarians at the Bibliothque Nationale de France, the Library of Congress, Harvard Universitys Houghton Library, and the McGill University Library. Rebecca Saltzman, my student research assistant, was invaluable in helping with translations and bibliographical work; Joan Matus was incredible in her administrative support. I thank Alisa Plant, Courtney Ochsner, and Elizabeth Zaleski at the University of Nebraska Press for shepherding me through the publication process, and Judith Hoover for her attentive reading. I am thankful as well for the two readers of my book, who offered important and much-welcome feedback. Reworked portions of chapters appeared as articles in French Forum and Dix-Neuf, and I am grateful to both journals for their permission for the work to appear here.

A few more personal thanks are in order. First and foremost to my wonderful parents, Patrick Henry and Mary Anne ONeil, for their immeasurable support of my education and for all their professional and personal advice, and to my late grandmother Cornelia ONeil, the best role model imaginable. Thanks to my Hensley and Solomon in-laws for their love and support throughout this project; to Rachel Winkelman for being my expert consultant on all matters related to business, to Elinor Hutton for her brilliant design advice, and to Rebecca Corvino for her copyediting genius and encouragement. Finally, I could not have completed this project without the support of Nathan Hensley, who has been beside me since before this project began and who is the most patient editor, insightful colleague, and thoughtful friend imaginable. June and Irene Hensley make our lives full and lovely, and this book is dedicated to them.