Titlebook: Henry James in Contemporary Fiction; The Real Thing Bethany Layne Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusiv

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‘An ado about Isabel Archer’: Colm Tóibín’s , (2009) and Kirsten Tranter’s , (2010)illiamson, who interviewed both authors at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, to distinguish between Tranter’s appropriation of .’s ‘architecture’, and Tóibín’s inhabiting of its ‘interior processes‘. Tóibín’s stylistic innovations are explored in relation to James’s third-person-limited perspective, whi

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‘The Real Thing?’: Cynthia Ozick’s , (2010) and Michiel Heyns’s , (2012)concerned with the act of appropriation as they are with James’s novel. This dictates the chapter’s emphasis on the triangulated themes of reality, the simulacra and illusion. Layne argues that in ., there is an inviolable real that remains undiminished despite unsuccessful imitation, which bespeaks