It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge and thank my mentors, Derek Attridge, Ronald Levao, Bridget Gellert Lyons, Jacqueline T. Miller, and Michael McKeon, who have supported this project from its beginning to the present day. Although I did not realize it at the time, this book also owes a substantial debt to my participation in Constance Jordan’s Folger Institute Seminar (Fall, 1994), which helped me to formulate an intellectual framework from which to consider intersections between fictional works and legal discourse\ .
