A PLEA TO DIFFERENTIATION IN JOHN FOWLES’ THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN
A PLEA TO DIFFERENTIATION IN JOHN FOWLES’ THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN

Summary/Abstract: The present study attempts to outline that John Fowles’ novels foreground ontological uncertainties, although they do not totally reject the narrative conventions. The artificiality of creation is tackled as the devices or instruments of fictionalisation are explored from within the artistic work itself. Though readers are offered a complete picture of Victorianism, as they are given access to the social context, the cultural and philosophical issues of the epoch, all these assumptions are not simply rendered to realistically draw a historical period. In recreating the past, The French Lieutenant’s Woman also explores issues of novel writing and it ironically challenges coherent fictional forms of narrative.

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