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Author_Peter Conradi
betrayal
British Museum Reading Room
capture
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contemporary British literature
contemporary novelist
courtly love
critical study of John Fowles's fiction
Daphne Du Maurier
detective story
Detective Tale
Ebony Tower
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
English fiction
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erotic quest
Existentialist Philosophy
experimental
French Lieutenant's Woman
French Lieutenant’s Woman
genre theory
Knight Errant
Krak Des Chevaliers
La Tour
Le Grand Meaulnes
Les Chemins De La
literary genre
narrative experimentation
Pinter Screenplay
postmodern literary analysis
realist
Responsive Reading
Restif De La Bretonne
romance
romance narrative conventions
seduction
thriller
Victorian novel
Victorian novel studies
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367356224
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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John Fowles had gained great popularity as a contemporary novelist on both sides of the Atlantic. In this comprehensive study of his work, originally published in 1982, Peter Conradi relates his work to his life, his ideas and his place in contemporary English fiction at the time. Conradi sees him as both realist and experimental, and in detailed analyses of The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman illuminates Fowles’s use of literary genres – the romance (in particular), the detective story, the thriller, the Victorian novel, the tale of courtly love – to exploit and explode the conventions of that particular genre. Seduction, erotic quest, capture and betrayal are among the most important themes in Fowles’s work to be considered here.
Peter Conradi
