Acknowledgements
This two-volume book project could not have been conceivedwithout thegener-
ous institutional support provided bymyhomeinstitution, the University of
Texas atAustin.Because of theTexas Chair Endowment,Iwasabletoundertake
several summer research trips to archivesinEurope, including the International
Institute of SocialHistory in Amsterdam, the Deutsches LiteraturarchivinMar-
bach, and the German National Library inFrankfurt am Main and Leipzig.A
2012 DAADFaculty ResearchVisit Award allowed me to completearchival re-
search inBerlin, includinginthe Staatsbibliothek andKunstbibliothek. The
lastyear of support througha2011–13 Humanities ResearchAward paid for a
research assistant.AFaculty Research Assignment inSpring2014 gave me
much-needed release time for writing up myinitial findings. Throughout the
yearsIbenefitted tremendouslyfrom the vast holdingsofthe Perry-Castañeda
Library and theremarkableresourcefulness of its interlibraryloan staff.Agen-
erous book subvention grant from the Office of the President of The University
of Texas atAustin paid for all illustration-related expenses. Lastbut certainly
not least,because ofa2015–16 EURIAS-MarieCurie Fellowship at theFreiburg
Institute forAdvanced Study(FRIAS),Iwas able to finish the manuscript inre-
cordtime;myspecial thanksto the FRIAS director and stafffor an unforgettable
year.
During the five yearsofworking on this book,Ihavebenefittedenormously
from the feedback of colleagues across the disciplines. Christina Schrör andBe-
noît Dilletwerespirited interlocutors duringthe Freiburgyear.For some time
now,the members ofmy faculty-writing group at UT,Tracie Matysik,Judy Coffin,
BenBrower,and Yoav Di-Capua, have beenasupportive intellectual community
and provided insightful comments and useful suggestions. My colleagueinGer-
manic Studies, KitBelgum,shared her expertise in nineteenth century literature.
Barbara McCloskey of the UniversityofPittsburgh read the entiremanuscript and
offered encouragingfeedback. Invited lectures atVanderbiltUniversity,the Uni-
versityofMiami, the UniversityofWisconsin at Madison,Texas A&MUniversity,
and theFree University ofBerlin allowed me to presentversions of individual
chapters and to benefit from discussions with students and colleagues. Mean-
while,Ifound new intellectual communities at the annual conferences associat-
ed with the journalHistorical Materialismand the Emotion Studies and German
SocialismsNetworks of the GermanStudies Association.
In preparingthe manuscript,Ihave been competentlyassisted byKarin
Maxey who translated the quotations from workers’poems and socialist plays
intoreadable English and by AmandaFrost who completedafirst round of