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As I think of all the people in different places who have contributed in unique ways to this book, it makes sense to me that it was a traveller – Ryszard Kapuścinśki – who wrote: ‘it is only thanks to long-established custom that we sign the text with a single name’ (2008: 13). I am indebted to many more people than I can name here. But with this acknowledgement, and with the proviso that any errors can be signed with my own name alone, I offer the following, warmest thanks.

This book is on the result of research carried out at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Germany, where between 2006 and 2010 I was a member of the International PhD Programme (IPP) ‘Literary and Cultural Studies’, generously funded by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), with a part-time post in the Department of English and American Studies. The book might have remained a voyage imaginaire were it not for my doctoral supervisor, Ansgar Nünning: his generosity and vision, both in his personal guidance and in his dedication to creating such an inspiring international context in which to work, have been pivotal to my research, and much else. Thanks, too, to my second supervisor, Catherine Bernard (Paris Diderot), whose insights and encouragement – especially at the delicate moment when I realised I was writing about wonder – were crucial. Thanks to Wolfgang Hallet, co-facilitator of the IPP, and my colloquium year-group, for their invaluable feedback and camaraderie. I benefited greatly from Eleonora Ravizza’s insights as my dedicated respondent, and from conversations (as well as formal or informal German lessons) with Ursula Arning, Hanna Bingel, SteffiBock and Meike Hölscher. Special thanks are due to two great friends who read and responded, with tireless generosity and sensitivity, to work in progress: Michael Basseler patiently and insightfully talked through the whole project on an almost daily basis, and his careful reading of an early draft of Part I in particular was vital; René Dietrich, with whom I was fortunate to share the doctoral journey, read and responded to the whole manuscript, often on an after-midnightly basis, and reassured me, at the end, that I was there. Where I would have been without Rose Lawson, who gave me a home when I arrived, and made me at home throughout, I am not sure; but it would not been on time, nor with the right documents, nor in such good spirits. Without these people in my life I could not have brought the work to completion, and among the other dear friends who inspired and nourished me, I would especially like to thank Farzad Boobani, Ute Dietrich, Mirjam Horn, Marija Sruk, and Jutta Weingarten.

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