Ford Madox Ford's cosmopolis : psycho-geography, flânerie and the cultures of Paris / edited by Alexandra Becquet, Claire Davison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Becquet, Alexandra, editor.

Davison, Claire, editor.

Series:

International Ford Madox Ford studies ; 1569-4070 15.

International Ford Madox Ford Studies, 1569-4070 ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939--Criticism and interpretation.

Ford, Ford Madox.

Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme, issue, or work; and relates aspects of Ford's writing, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially 'The Good Soldier', long considered a modernist masterpiece; and 'Parade's End', which Anthony Burgess described as "the finest novel about the First World War", Samuel Hynes has called "the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman", and which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed 2012 BBC/HBO television series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall. The twelve essays in this volume, 'Ford Madox Ford's Cosmopolis', focus directly on the internationalism so important to Ford, and bring out three main ideas. First, his lifelong commitment to an international vision of literature and culture. Second, 'Cosmopolis' also refers to Ford's experiences of the particular cosmopolitan cities he lived in: London, Paris, New York. Third, the idea that his lifelong experience of Paris in particular informed and shaped his writing. Ford's Cosmopolis is thus not only an ideal city or state open to such cosmopolitan exchange. It is also a mode of writing which invents forms and styles to render the experience of such hybridity, diversity, fluidity, and tolerance.

Contents:

Paris Fluctuat... Ford Madox Ford's Urban Psychogeography / Georges Letissier Letissier, Georges 25

The City, the Self and the Real-and-Imagined: Ford Madox Ford and Paris / Andrea Rummel Rummel, Andrea 47

Converging Orbits: Ford Madox Ford, Russian Paris and the Motifs of Expatriation / Martina Ciceri Ciceri, Martina 59

'Beautiful and Instructive': Ford Madox Ford's Encounter with Popular Culture / Rob Spence Spence, Rob 81

Dissolving Views, or, the Lives of 'Bad, Mad Bosphorus' / Laurence Davies Davies, Laurence 95

The transatlantic review and the Nouvefle Revue Française -between Tradition and Modernity: The Ford-Larbaud-Joyce Connection / Annalisa Federici Federici, Annalisa 115

'Adventures of the Soul Among Masterpieces': Ford and France (Anatole) / Max Saunders Saunders, Max 129

'Le Traducteur E. M. (une Femme)': Conrad, the Hueffers and the 1903 Maupassant Translations / Helen Chambers Chambers, Helen 155

Quartet with Variations: Ford Madox Ford, Stella Bowen, Jean Rhys, Jean Lenglet / Joseph Wiesenfarth Wiesenfarth, Joseph 175

What Hemingway Learned from Ford / George Wickes Wickes, George 189

Ford and Biala: A Bohemian Life / Martin Stannard Stannard, Martin 207

Ford Madox Ford Nathan Asch (Edited by Alexandra Becquet) 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004328365

900432836X

OCLC:

954018502