Acknowledgements

A book about the making of books must needs acknowledge all who have contributed to its making. We would like to thank John Benjamins and FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures for taking an interest in the project and seeing it through to completion; our anonymous readers for the press and, closer to home, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and Bruce Lawder for their gimlet eyes; and, last but not least, our copy-editor, Rebekka Haerter, who scoured the manuscript twice, and Rahel Huwyler, who helped with the index. But our warmest thanks go to our wordsmiths for their brilliance and generosity of spirit.