Acknowledgements

I acknowledge the generous support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Wolfson Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, which funded the PhD and postdoctoral research on which this project is based.

I am grateful for permission to include content from work published elsewhere. Passages from my chapter ‘Jane Austen and Caricature’ in the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts (eds. Joe Bray and Hannah Moss) and from my article ‘Walter Scott and the Future of Caricature in the Novel’ (published in Studies in Romanticism in 2021) reappear, in revised form, in Chapters 4 and 5 respectively. Full citations of these works are included in the bibliography.

Thanks to my supervisors and supporters at the University of Edinburgh, particularly Penny Fielding and Bob Irvine. Thanks to the team at IASH, and to the staff at the National Library of Scotland.

Thank you to the Department of English at the University of Victoria for your teaching and mentorship. I gratefully acknowledge the entrance scholarship that allowed me to pursue a Master’s degree, and the support of the Hugh Campbell and Marion Alice Small Fund for Scottish Studies.

Thanks to those who have offered insightful and kindly helpful comments on my PhD and journal articles: Freya Johnston, Rebecca Tierney-Hynes, David Stewart and the peer reviewers for Studies in Romanticism. Thanks to the two peer reviewers for Cambridge University Press who read the draft of my monograph and inspired me to make it better than it was.

Much of this book was rewritten several times between 2019 and 2022. I give my most personal thanks to those who have imparted moral support above and beyond any professional commitments, at crucial times over the last four years – particularly Mike Bintley, Rebecca Tierney-Hynes, Katie Halsey and Georgina Barker.