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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

As ever, I am indebted to Verity Burgmann, my partner in life and
labour, for all the truly important things. I am grateful to our sons,
David, James and Robert, just for being there, and also, let it be
admitted, for sometimes not being there. I am indebted too to friends,
colleagues and students in the Centre for Comparative Literature and
Cultural Studies at Monash University and in the Centre for Cultural
Studies at the University of Leeds, and to staff at the Monash University
Library and the Brotherton Library. Comparisons are always invidious,
but special thanks are due to Marie Maclean, David Roberts, Philip
Thomson, Gail Ward and Chris Worth at Monash, Zygmunt Bauman,
Griselda Pollock and Adrian Rifkin at Leeds. I am grateful to Stephen
Mennell for suggesting a second edition of the book and to Nicholas
Esson and Steven Gerrard for the enthusiasm with which they greeted
that suggestion. For reasons many and various, thanks are due also to
Sue Cockerill, Ann Dudgeon, Sheila Jones, Andrew Keogh, David
Lockwood, Richard Milner, Joyce and Phil Morton, Colin Sparks
and Kathy Türnier.

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