Abstract:This essay aims at investigating the significance of Jane Austen in JohnFowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman. References to Austen’s Persuasionappear three times in Fowles’s novel, and the resonances of this intertextualdialogue substantially affect the politics of characterization and space(mainly the Cobb) in The French Lieutenant’s Woman. This discussionis theoretically based on the relationship between intertextuality,intermediality and parody, so as to consider the relevance of Persuasion(a pre-Victoria… Show more
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