Browsing by Author "Layne, Bethany"
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The Anchored Imagination of the Biographical Novel
Layne, Bethany; Toibin, C. (Book chapter) -
The Bionovel as a Hybrid Genre
Layne, Bethany (Book chapter) -
Henry James in Contemporary Fiction: The Real Thing
Layne, Bethany (Book)This book explores the extraordinary proliferation of novels based on Henry James’s life and works published between 2001 and 2016, the centenary of his death. Part One concentrates on biofictions about James by David Lodge ... -
Henry would never know he hadn't written it himself: The Implications of "Dictation" (2008) for Jamesian Style
Layne, Bethany (Article)This essay explores the critical implications of Cynthia Ozick’s “Dictation,” a work of biographical fiction in which James and Conrad’s typists covertly exchange excerpts from “The Jolly Corner” and “The Secret Sharer.” ... -
Her Own Words Describe Her Best? Reconstructing Plath’s Original Ariel in Sylvia (2003) and Wintering (2003)
Layne, Bethany (Article)This article explores two of Sylvia Plath’s afterlives: John Brownlow and Christine Jeffs’ biopic Sylvia (2003) and Kate Moses’s novel Wintering (2003). Contrary to Frieda Hughes’s assertion that such works attempt to ... -
I did it, I: The Afterlife of Sylvia Plath's Journals, 1956-2003
Layne, Bethany (Article)This essay challenges what Sarah Cardwell calls the ‘centre-based model of adaptation’ by reinstating a chain of literary texts between a passage in Emma Tennant’s The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted (2001) and the entry in Sylvia ... -
Postmodernism and the Biographical Novel
Layne, Bethany (Book chapter) -
The “Supreme Portrait Artist” and the “Mistress of the Phrase”: Contesting Oppositional Portrayals of Woolf and Bell, Life and Art, in Susan Sellers’s Vanessa and Virginia (2008)
Layne, Bethany (Article)This article offers one of the first sustained explorations of Susan Sellers’s biofiction Vanessa and Virginia (2008), tracing the text’s intersections with biographies of Woolf and Bell and placing it in dialogue with ... -
The Turn of the Century: Henry James in Millennial Fiction
Layne, Bethany (Article)This article explores the developments in biographical and appropriative literature that enabled the proliferation of novels rewriting James’s life and works, including the postmodern scepticism towards biography as empirical ... -
''Welcome to a New Era'?: Downton Abbey in 2019'
Layne, Bethany (Article)Just as Downton Abbey Seasons 1-6 coincided with the Coalition government, the production schedule for the 2019 movie paralleled key moments in the Brexit campaign. The film offers a comforting, optimistic narrative to an ...