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Nigel Harkness is Senior Lecturer in French at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests focus on George Sand and women's writing in nineteenth-century France. He is the author of Men of their Words: The Poetics of Masculinity in George Sand's Fiction (2007) and co-editor of Dix-Neuf, the journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. Marion Schmid is Reader in French at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Chantal Akerman (2010), Proust dans la décadence (2008), Proust at the Movies (2005; co-authored with Martine Beugnet) and Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust (1998).