I am grateful to the Office of the Provost, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, for support of this project. Colleagues lent their ideas and support throughout various stages, especially Pete Mandik, Steven Cahn, Eric Steinhart, and Catherine Villanueva Gardner. I wish to thank my editor, Eve DeVaro, and her assistants, Tessa Fallon and Emily Ross, for their constant, invaluable assistance, and my mom, Agnes, for her generous help in typing readings for the manuscript.
Maureen Eckert
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth