I would like to thank the many individuals whose support and encouragement made this book possible, particularly Simone Chess, Jaime Goodrich, and Lisa Maruca. I am grateful to those who helped me refine and finesse this work, especially Laura Estill, Elizabeth Acosta, Renuka Gusain, Matthew Garley, Shereen Inayatulla, Patricia Milanes, Bryan Brazeau, and Sarah Parker. Thanks also to Kelly Baker Josephs, Heather Robinson, Matt Brim, Jillian Hess, Amanda Almond, and Sohomjit Ray.
This book was made possible thanks to the funding and support from several sources, including the CUNY Book Completion Award, the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Program, PSC-CUNY Research Awards, the Wayne State University Graduate School, Wayne State’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Wayne State Humanities Center, the English Department at Wayne State, and the English Department at York College, CUNY. The grants and awards provided by these institutions allowed me to devote time and crucial resources to completing this project.
Some earlier material from Chapter 6, ‘Immaterial Labour, Mass Intellectuality, and the New Digital Agents’, appeared in History of European Ideas, 42.5 (2016), pp. 607–617; and an earlier version of Chapter 5, ‘“Printed in Utopia”: Marketing Genre Across a Century’, appeared in Appositions, 9 (2016). I would like to thank the editors of both journals for their permission to publish revisions of these essays. Thanks also to the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery for their permission to print the images reproduced in this book.