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

Anna Despotopoulou, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

1-8

Aleatory Realism: Reflections on the Parable of the Pier-Glass

Matthew Beaumont

9-17

Realism’s Concealed Realities

Josie Billington, Philip Davis

18-29

“Why do you write what isn’t true?”: Dostoevsky and the Fantastic Paradox

Michael Hollington

30-43

“There is no first reading”: (Re-)Reading Nineteenth-Century Realist Novels and their Critics

Dennis Walder

44-55

Realism’s Racial Gaze and Stephen Crane’s The Monster: A Lacanian Reading

Sheldon George

56-68

Capitalist Realism and the Refrain: The Libidinal Economies of Degas

Dougal Philips

69-81

Capturing the ‘Real’ in British Television Fiction: Experiments in/of Realism— An Abiding and Evolving Notion

Renée Dickason

82-92

Investing in Realism: An Interview with Bruce Robbins

Bruce Robbins, Anna Despotopoulou

93-99

Beaumont Matthew (ed.), Adventures in Realism.

Sylvia Karastathi

100-103

Head Dominic, The State of the Novel: Britain and Beyond.

Efrosini Camatsos

104-105

Poovey Mary, Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain.

Filomachi Spathopoulou

106-107

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