THE CONCEPT OF THE "NEW" HEROINE IN THE VICTORIAN WRITERS'S WORKS AND J. FOWLES'S NOVEL "THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN"

The concept of the "new" heroine in classical and non-classical novelistic tradition is characterized in the present article. The author analyzes specifics of treatment of female characters and their typology in the English novel of the XIX century. On the example of John Fowles's creativity, the evolution of the concept of the "new" heroine is shown. The article concludes that the writer of the XX century, on the one hand, borrows the concept of the heroine from the Victorian writers, on the other hand, writer reinterprets and transforms it, contaminating with existentialistic, Freudian and mythological attitudes.