An Introduction to Ford Madox Ford, edited by Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes, was published in December 2015 by Ashgate.
For students and readers new to the work of Ford Madox Ford, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex, important and fascinating authors. Bringing together leading Ford scholars, the volume places Ford's work in the context of significant literary, artistic and historical events and movements. Individual essays consider Ford's theory of literary Impressionism and the impact of the First World War; illuminate The Good Soldier and Parade's End; engage with topics such as the city, gender, national identity and politics; discuss Ford as an autobiographer, poet, propagandist, sociologist, Edwardian and modernist; and show his importance as founding editor of the groundbreaking English Review and transatlantic review. The volume encourages detailed close reading of Ford's writing and illustrates the importance of engaging with secondary sources.
'With its broad view of Ford Madox Ford's many interests and accomplishments and in its illumination of his fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, this excellent collection offers readers a man of tremendous curiosity and intellectual vitality.' Joseph Wiesenfarth, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Contents:
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Brilliant Ford Madox Ford
Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes
1. Ford’s Lives
Max Saunders
2. Conrad and Ford; Ford and Conrad
John Attridge
3. Towards The Good Soldier: Ford’s Edwardian Fiction
Rob Hawkes
4. Ford and Modernism
Seamus O’Malley
5. Ford’s Literary Impressionism
Laura Colombino
6. The Good Soldier
Martin Stannard
7. Ford Among the ‘Movements, Magazines and Manifestos’
Stephen Rogers
8. In the ‘Twentieth-Century Fashion’: Ford and Modern Poetry
Paul Skinner
9. Ford and the First World War
Andrew Frayn
10. Parade’s End
Isabelle Brasme
11. Ford and the City
Angus Wrenn
12. Ford and Gender
Sara Haslam
13. Ford and National Identity
Christine Berberich
14. Ford and Politics
Andrzej Gasiorek
Guide to Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
Ashley Chantler is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK.
Rob Hawkes is Senior Lecturer in English at Teesside University, UK.
For more information and to order copies, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/An-Introduction-to-Ford-Madox-Ford/Chantler-Hawkes/p/book/9781472469083
For students and readers new to the work of Ford Madox Ford, this volume provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most complex, important and fascinating authors. Bringing together leading Ford scholars, the volume places Ford's work in the context of significant literary, artistic and historical events and movements. Individual essays consider Ford's theory of literary Impressionism and the impact of the First World War; illuminate The Good Soldier and Parade's End; engage with topics such as the city, gender, national identity and politics; discuss Ford as an autobiographer, poet, propagandist, sociologist, Edwardian and modernist; and show his importance as founding editor of the groundbreaking English Review and transatlantic review. The volume encourages detailed close reading of Ford's writing and illustrates the importance of engaging with secondary sources.
'With its broad view of Ford Madox Ford's many interests and accomplishments and in its illumination of his fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, this excellent collection offers readers a man of tremendous curiosity and intellectual vitality.' Joseph Wiesenfarth, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Contents:
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Brilliant Ford Madox Ford
Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes
1. Ford’s Lives
Max Saunders
2. Conrad and Ford; Ford and Conrad
John Attridge
3. Towards The Good Soldier: Ford’s Edwardian Fiction
Rob Hawkes
4. Ford and Modernism
Seamus O’Malley
5. Ford’s Literary Impressionism
Laura Colombino
6. The Good Soldier
Martin Stannard
7. Ford Among the ‘Movements, Magazines and Manifestos’
Stephen Rogers
8. In the ‘Twentieth-Century Fashion’: Ford and Modern Poetry
Paul Skinner
9. Ford and the First World War
Andrew Frayn
10. Parade’s End
Isabelle Brasme
11. Ford and the City
Angus Wrenn
12. Ford and Gender
Sara Haslam
13. Ford and National Identity
Christine Berberich
14. Ford and Politics
Andrzej Gasiorek
Guide to Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
Ashley Chantler is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK.
Rob Hawkes is Senior Lecturer in English at Teesside University, UK.
For more information and to order copies, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/An-Introduction-to-Ford-Madox-Ford/Chantler-Hawkes/p/book/9781472469083
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