We are indebted to Linda Bree for initiating this project, and for giving us this opportunity to work together on something
dear to both our hearts. We want to thank Amanda Klinger, our graduate assistant at the University of Oklahoma, for her careful,
punctual, and efficient work, and Jana Hill and her colleagues at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas,
for the interest they took in this project. This book is far better for Maartje Scheltens, Thomas O’Reilly, and Caroline Howlett
at Cambridge University Press – we feel particularly fortunate to have had the benefit of their professionalism and experience.
Jeff Richards passed away just as this book was going into press. His quality as a colleague, scholar, and human being was
immediately apparent; and his loss will be felt by those who knew him a little, as well as by those who knew him long and
well. The finished professionalism and quiet generosity of his contribution to this volume are characteristic, and awe-inspiring
given all that he was privately undergoing at the time. Since this was one of the last things he wrote, we think it fitting
to dedicate Transatlantic Literary Studies to his memory.