Introduction: Reflections Faint and Confused—Experiments in/of Realism

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Published: May 1, 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16870
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realism realist fiction realist fiction Dickens representation
Anna Despotopoulou
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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Anna Despotopoulou, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Anna Despotopoulou is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Athens, Greece. Her recent publications include articles on Henry James, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Christina Rossetti, in journals and collections, and two co-edited volumes, Henry James and the Supernatural (with Kimberly Reed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (with Chryssoula Lascaratou and Elly Ifantidou, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008).

Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou is Assistant Professor in English Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been teaching and publishing on realism, modernism, and the English novel, as well as on feminist and body theory. She has contributed to The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe and has recently co-edited: The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh: Cultural and Theoretical Returns to the Body (New York: Peter Lang, 2007), and The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
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