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Acknowledgements
Special thanks are due to the many colleagues who have invited me to share my work in progress at various conferences in Europe, North America, and Asia, including: “Ecritures de Femmes et Autobiographie,” Equipe de Recherche Créativité et Imaginaire des Femmes, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, France; “l’Excentrique,” Société d’Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, France; “Annual Scholar’s Day,” State University of New York at Cortland, USA; “Space and Identity: Twentieth-Century British Literature—Trauma and Dissonance,” College English Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; “Communities: an International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Theoretical and Practical, Cultural and Social Aspects of the Communal,” Trinity and All Saint’s College of the University of Leeds, UK; “European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism,” International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aberystwyth, Wales; “International Conference on the Study and Research of European Literatures,” College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Peking University, Haidian, Beijing, People’s Republic of China;