Year 12 ATAR Literature
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
This subject guide is to support your Year 12 ATAR LITERATURE study of
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by John Fowles
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Last updated October 2019
(John Fowles, 2019)
Alternate covers
Biography
Barnum, C. M., & Cole, D. W. (2010). John Fowles. Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition, 1–12. Retrieved from Literary Reference Centre database.
Biographical information and critique
Goosmann, B. (2019). Welcome John Fowles fans and new readers! Retrieved from https://www.fowlesbooks.com/
Biographical information
Karbiener, K., & Stade, G. (2013). Fowles, John. In Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present, Third Edition. New York: Facts On File. Retrieved from Bloom’s Literature database.
Biographical information and critical analysis
“Or perhaps I am trying to pass off a concealed book of essays on you. Instead of chapter headings, perhaps I should have written ‘On the Horizontality of Existence’, ‘The Illusions of Progress’, ‘The History of the Novel Form’, ‘The Aetiology of Freedom’, ‘Some Forgotten Aspects of the Victorian Age’… what you will.” (Fowles, 2004, p. 95)
Contains specific discussion of The French Lieutenant’s Woman in relation to postmodernism.
Study notes on The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Guided readings of The French Lieutenant’s Woman and context
Chaudhuri, S. K. (2012). “The Contradictions of a Victorian Romance in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman”. Appropriations, 8.
Ji, Q., & Li, M. (2013). Freedom in “the french lieutenant’s woman”. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 3(11), 2052-2060. doi:10.4304/tpls.3.11.2052-2060
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. (2016). About The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Retrieved from https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/the-french-lieutenants-woman/about-the-french-lieutenants-woman
Darwinism
Hudson, R. H., & Pinkerton, J. (2004).Social Darwinism. In Encyclopedia of the Chicago Literary Renaissance. New York: Facts On File. Retrieved from Bloom’s Literature database.
Marxism
Existentialism
Victorian Era
Victorians. (2011, March 10). Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
The Victorian web. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.victorianweb.org/
“Next year we shall open emporia in Bristol and Birmingham.”(Fowles, p.288) stated Freeman to Smithson, who stood to inherit a great fortune through his marriage to Ernestina.
Pope, V. (2003). A and AS Level Language and Literature & Media Studies. Retrieved from http://litnotes.co.uk/?French
Looking out to sea. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/john-fowles-french-lieutenants-woman-fifty/
This provides an interesting overview of Fowles’ work and attitude to success and criticism of his literary efforts.
Fowles, J. (n.d.). The French Lieutenant’s Woman Study Guide from The creators of SparkNotes. Retrieved from https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-french-lieutenant-s-woman
John Robert Fowles [image]. (2019). Retrieved from https://images.app.goo.gl/VQN6Ut63fSqkgoGYA
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Fowles, J. (2004). The French Lieutenant’s Woman. New York, NY: Random House.