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Acknowledgments
I am deeply grateful to Toni Tan and the staff of Cambria Press for their kind support throughout the publication process.
This project began as a doctoral dissertation at Emory University and owes an enormous debt to its faculty directors. Walter L. Reed was an attentive and generous mentor who enriched my knowledge of Bakhtin and theories of the novel. Kate E. Brown offered gentle nurturance and incisive commentary, as well as her profound knowledge of Victorian studies. As a scholar, teacher, and reader, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson shaped my understanding of the connections between the body and ideology, and provided as much rousing encouragement as anyone could need.
An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared in the collection Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal, published by The Ohio State University Press in 2008. Editors Claudia Klaver and Ellen Rosenman, as well as the Ohio State UP editorial staff, contributed greatly to its development.
My thanks to the people of the Lewis Beck Center and Emory Women Writer's Resource Project—particularly Shelia Cavanagh, Erika Farr, Chuck Spornick and Alice Hickox—for the opportunity to contribute to