Henry James in Contemporary Fiction

Dr Bethany Layne is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester. She has published widely on biographical fiction, in journals including The Henry James Review, Woolf Studies Annual, and Adaptation. She pioneered the first specialist biofiction module in the UK, and is the editor of a collection of essays on the genre.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Year of Henry James: David Lodge's Author, Author (2004) and Colm Toibin’s The Master (2004).- 3. Three Women and His Art (Part One) One): Elizabeth Maguire’s The Open Door (2008), Emma Tennant’s Felony (2002) and Lynne Alexander’s The Sister (2012).- 4. Three Women and His Art (Part two): Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Dictation’ (2008) and Michiel Heyns’s The Typewriter’s Tale (2005).-  5. ‘An ado about Isabel Archer’:Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn (2009) and Kirsten Tranter’s The Legacy (2010).- 6. ‘Written in Faded Ink’: A.N. Wilson’s A Jealous Ghost (2005) and John Harding’s Florence and Giles (2010).- 7. 'The real thing?': Cynthia Ozick's Foreign Bodies (2010) and Michiel Heyns's Invisible Furies (2012).- 8. Conclusion.