ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Five Words has gained a great deal from imaginative readers and thoughtful audiences. Many friends and colleagues offered observa- tions and criticisms that improved the book, notably Albert Russell Ascoli, Vincent Barletta, Harry Berger Jr., Gordon Braden, George Hardin Brown, Philippe Buc, Kathryn Burns, Theodore Cachey, Ken- neth Calhoon, Anthony Cascardi, Patrick Cheney, Margaret Cohen, Barbara Correll, Jorge Cañizares Esguerra, Anne J. Cruz, John Da- genais, Maria DiBattista, Heather Dubrow, Lynn Enterline, J. Mar- tin Evans, Elizabeth Fowler, Barbara Fuchs, Hester Gelber, Denise Gigante, Linda Gregerson, Jay Grossman, Sepp Gumbrecht, Jean Howard, Heather James, Nicholas Jenkins, Victoria Kahn, William J. Kennedy, Seth Kimmel, Jo Labanyi, Clare A. Lees, Seth Lerer, Bar- bara K. Lewalski, David Loewenstein, Jenny C. Mann, Annabel Mar- tín, Jeffrey Masten, Stephanie Merrim, Steven Mullaney, Eric Naiman, Stephen Orgel, Ricardo Padrón, David Palumbo- Liu, Patricia Parker, Marjorie Perloff, Charles A. Perrone, Curtis Perry, Nancy Rutten- burg, Kathryn Schwarz, Jennifer Summit, Wendy Wall, Christopher Warley, John Watkins, Julian Weiss, William West, Susanne Wofford, and Susanne Woods. Paula Blank, Claire Bowen, Ruth Kaplan, Joseph Lease, David Marno, and Ramón Saldívar generously read chapters or the entire manuscript; their responses enriched Five Words immensely, not to mention the confi dence of the author. Two anonymous readers for the Press both understood the project and made searching criticisms. As always I appreciate the good sense of my editor, Alan G. Thomas, and the staff at the Press. Kathy Swain copy- edited the manuscript with tact and authority. For all sorts of counsel and inspiration I am indebted to my Stanford and San Francisco circle, especially Lucy Alford, Frederick Blumberg, Lauren Boehm, Chris- topher Donaldson, Caroline Egan, Harris Feinsod, Christina Galvez, Fabian Goppelsröder, Kathryn Hume, Jenna Lay, Rhiannon Lewis, Talya Meyers, Noam Pines, Luke Parker, Virginia Ramos, Stephanie Schmidt, Alexandra Slessarev, Bronwen Tate, and Ema Vyroubalová. Jennifer Cameron was an enterprising research assistant. At one time that I believed the work at a dead end, my late colleague Jay Fliegel- man offered encouragement that made a difference. Portions of the chapters were delivered as the Reinhard Kuhn Me- morial Lecture in the Department of Comparative Literature at , the Paul Gottschalk Lecture in the Department of English at Cornell University, the Renato Poggioli Lecture in the Depart- ment of Comparative Literature at , the Leonora Woodman Lecture in the Department of English at Purdue Univer- sity, and the keynote address to the Northern California Renaissance Conference at the University of California, Berkeley. Excerpts were also presented as lectures at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Studies, both at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Depart- ment of Spanish at Dartmouth College; the Department of English at Gonzaga University; the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Huelva; the Department of Spanish and Spanish American Stud- ies at King’s College, London; the Center for Early Modern History and the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; the Newberry Library; the Early Modern Colloquium and the Department of English at Northwestern University; the Devers Pro- gram in Dante Studies and the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Notre Dame; the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of ; the Department of Compara- tive Literature at the Pennsylvania State University; the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University; the Department of

Acknowledgments viii English at Rice University; the Shakespeare Association of America; the Department of English at the University of Southern California; the Department of English at Vanderbilt University; the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia; the Northeast Milton Seminar at Wheaton College; and the Department of English and the Early Modern Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I was honored by these invitations, each of which gave me the opportunity to rethink elements of the project with an attentive audience. Early versions of some of this book’s arguments appeared as follows: a portion of “Invention” as “Ann Lock’s Meditation: Invention versus Dilation and the Founding of Puritan Poetics,” in Form and Reform in the English Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ed. Amy Boesky and Mary Thomas Crane (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000), 151–68; a portion of “Resistance” as “Colo- nial Becomes Postcolonial,” Modern Language Quarterly 65 (2004): 423–41, and “Resistance in Process: On the Semantics of Early Modern Prose Fiction,” Prose Studies (2010): 100–109; a portion of “Blood” as “Shakespeare, Cervantes, and the Project of Early Modern Blood,” in Entre Cervantes y Shakespeare: Sendas del Renacimiento, ed. Zenón Luis-Martínez and Luis Gómez Canseco (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2006), 141–60; and portions of “World” as “Island Logic,” in The Tempest and Its Travels, ed. Peter Hulme and William H. Sher- man (London: Reaktion Books, 2000), 138–45, and “The Global I: Rethinking an Early Modern Convention,” in Stories and Portraits of the Self, ed. Helena Carvalhão Buescu and João Ferreira Duarte (Am- sterdam: Rodopi, 2007), 161–74. All are reprinted with permission. My best interlocutor is my wife, Marisa Galvez, whose judgment and encouragement have seen the book to its conclusion. Five Words is for her and our daughter, Eleanor.

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