romantic drama

The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a 1981 British romantic drama film directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Leon Clore, and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter.

postmodern historical fiction

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles.

historical fiction

Fowles explored yet another genre, historical fiction, with Nicholas Urfe's best-known novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, which received the W. H. Smith Literary Award in 1970 and was made into a movie, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, in 1981.

romance

The plot is romance of the English rather than the French brand.

a metafictional novel and

In Ten 1/2 Chapters, 1989The French Lieutenant Woman is a metafictional novel and a metafictional novel's narrator claims the invention of the story.

a Victorian novel by a modern author - the revered John Fowles

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a Victorian novel by a modern author - the revered John Fowles.

romance novel

a romance novel's plot is an adaptation to present day's American culture of three plays Marius, Fanny and César, called la Trilogie Marseillaise written by French author Marcel Pagnol c. 1930.

a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel

Perhaps the most beloved of John Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel.

a Victorian novel and also a postmodern treatise on the artificiality of the novel and the methods the author uses to create Meryl Streep's fiction

So The French Lieutenant’s Woman is both a Victorian novel and also a postmodern treatise on the artificiality of the novel and the methods the author uses to create Meryl Streep's fiction.

post-war British literature

The French Lieutenant’s Woman is one of the great works of post-war British literature.

a sort of pastiche of Victorian romantic fiction

In brief, The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a sort of pastiche of Victorian romantic fiction, told in a stylized prose of pitch-perfect accuracy that falls just this side of parody.

a perfect modern interpretation/adaptation of classic Victorian novels

The French Lieutenant’s Woman is my kind of Victorian novel, a perfect modern interpretation/adaptation of classic Victorian novels.

an English novelist, much influenced by both Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, and critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism

The French Lieutenant Woman John Robert Fowles was an English novelist, much influenced by both Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, and critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism.

one of the first examples of the neo-Victorian genre

The French Lieutenant´s Woman is one of the first examples of the neo-Victorian genre and therefore often regarded as canonical.

cinematic adaptation

Just as the book was a dialogue with both traditional Victorian novels, and novels as a whole, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a cinematic adaptation that challenges both both its source material's source material and both its source material's own medium; both its source material 's that rare film about film that illuminates both sides of the camera.

a classic Victorian love story and an ironic look at an age of double-standard morality

Directed by Karl Reisz (THE GAMBLER, WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN), from the screenplay by Harold Pinter, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN is at once a classic Victorian love story and an ironic look at an age of double-standard morality.

historical romance

romance novel falls into the category of historical romance.

a love story set in Victorian England

The French Lieutenant's Woman is a love story set in Victorian England, whereas The Collector portrays a lonely young man who is so madly obsessed by a girl that John Fowles kidnaps John Fowles .

love-story

The simple love-story plot involves the marriage of a provincial woman (Dita Parlo) to the skipper of a barge (Jean Daste), and the only other characters of consequence are the barge's skeletal crew (Michel Simon and Louis Lefebvre) and a peddler (Gilles Margaritis) who flirts with the wife at a cabaret and describes the wonders of Paris to Gilles Margaritis.

operetta

The story is a time-honoured operetta yarn of an aristocrat (Hélène) disguising herself as a shop girl (“Véronique”) to test the love of the man (Florestan) Messager is destined to marry.