John Fowles (1926-2005) was a novelist. William Stephenson's 2003 critical study divides Fowles's work into three chronological phases, focusing on his development as a novelist, essayist, and thinker; discussing him in the light of his literary predecessors such as Hardy, Defoe, and Scott; and examining the key biographical influences on his writing. This book breaks new ground by exploring the hitherto overlooked role of ethnicity in Fowles's novels, and his idiosyncratic treatment of the past in The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) and A Maggot (1985).
| ISBN: | 9780746309872 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2002 |
| Author: | William Stephenson |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 128 pages |
| Series: | Writers and Their Work |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |