Acknowledgements

Preparing a book for publication is always a collaborative effort. Edited volumes like this one require an especially high level of cooperation amongst all involved. This book is the product of many hands, and the editors wish to thank those who have been involved in seeing it through to fruition.

Our first debt is to our authors for their thought-provoking scholarly contributions to this volume and their continuous collaboration with us while finalising the book. The scholars whose work is included in this volume are at the forefront of some of the most exciting new developments in stylistics today. We are grateful for the opportunity to showcase their research between the covers of this book.

We also owe a debt of gratitude to the many speakers who took part in the LAND-SIG special interest group sessions on the stylistics of landscape, place and environment at the 2016 and 2017 international conferences of the Poetics And Linguistics Association (PALA). It was largely as a result of the inspirational exchange of ideas during these sessions that the plan for this book arose in the first place. We are also thankful to the conference organisers for allowing us to host the LAND-SIGs during these conferences.

For their confidence in this project and their unfailing support, we also want to thank the series editors of the Linguistic Approaches to Literature series, Sonia Zyngier and Joanna Gavins. This book was longer in the making than any of us intended, but you stuck with us. Thanks also to Kees Vaes and Esther Roth, and John Benjamins Publishing Company for making this series – and this book – possible.