The Literature and Culture of the Closet
in the Eighteenth Century
Danielle Bobker
 

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to the countless people who’ve been game to discuss closets with me over the past ten years, especially the students whose curiosity and enthusiasm has made the evolution of this course such a pleasure. I also wish to thank the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University and the Fonds de recherche du Québec for financial support and writing time, Brianne Colon and Shannon Tien for invaluable research assistance, and editors Katherine Ellison and Holly Faith Nelson at Digital Defoe for their tirelessness and vision.

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