Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the following scholars for their comments on earlier versions of this work: Hans C.Arsleff, Sonja Bargmann, Harold С. Conklin, David W. Crabb, Murray Fowler, Albert H. Marckwardt, William G.Moulton, and Irving Zaretsky. I am indebted as well to many other scholars in various fields--too many to list here--for their suggestions.

I would like to thank also Princeton University, the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Washington for financial support during the writing of this work.

I am especially grateful to Betty Johnson, graphic designer and typist for this book, for her painstaking attention and her humor.