Ford madox ford's modernity / edited by Robert Hampson and Max Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hampson, Robert, 1965- editor.

Saunders, Max, editor.

Series:

International Ford Madox Ford studies ; Volume 2.

International Ford Madox Ford Studies ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Editions Rodopi B.V., [2003]

Summary:

Ford Madox Ford's Modernity explores the relation between modern writing and modern experience. It examines how his prose registers the impact on society and the arts of new technologies, such as railways and telephones. It demonstrates how Ford's writing reflects, and elaborates, new conceptions of subjectivity, gender, nation and empire. And it establishes his contribution to the growing sense of crisis in the fields of history, epistemology, and representation. It includes essays by twenty leading Ford scholars on a wide range of his fiction and criticism, giving particular attention to The Good Soldier and to his responses to modern war.

Contents:

Epigraphs

Max SAUNDERS: General Editor's Preface

Sir Frank KERMODE: Foreword

Max SAUNDERS: Introduction

I: CONDITIONS OF MODERNITY: TECHNOLOGY, GENDER, AND THE CITY

Philip HORNE: Absent-Mindedness: Ford on the Phone

Sara HASLAM: Ford's Training

Giovanni CIANCI: Three memories of a Night: Ford's Impressionism in the Great London Vortex

Robin PEEL: Ford and the Simple Life: Gender, Subjectivity and Class in a Satirized Utopia

II: THE GOOD SOLDIER: DESlRE, TEXT, AND HISTORY

Davida PINES: Irony and the Marriage Plot in The Good Soldier

Caroline PATEY: Empire, Ethnology and The Good Soldier

Sally BACHNER: 'The Seeing Eye': Detection, Perception and Erotic Knowledge in The Good Soldier

Roger POOLE: The Unknown Ford Madox Ford

Martin STANNARD: The Good Soldier : Editorial Problems

Bernard BERGONZI: Fiction and History: Rereading The Good Soldier

III: FORD, THE WAR AND THE POST-WAR: ENGLISHNESS, SOCIETY, HISTORY

Dennis BROWN: Remains of the Day: Tietjens the Englishman

Robert L. CASERIO: Ford's and Kipling's Modernist Imagination of Public Virtue

Cornelia COOK: Constructions and Reconstructions: No Enemy

IV: FORD AND MODERN WRITING: BIOGRAPHY, INTERTEXTUALITY, AND STYLE

Joseph WIESENFARTH: Ford Madox Ford, Violet Hunt, and the Battle of the Books: SexuaI/Textual Hostilities

Ros PESMAN: 'Drawn From Life': Stella Bowen and Ford Madox Ford

Elena LAMBERTI: Ford Madox Ford and Ernest Hemingway in the Literary Arena of Paris, 1924

W.B. HUTCHINGS: Ford and Maupassant

Vita FORTUNATI: The epistemological malaise of the narrator character in Ford, Conrad, Pirandello and Svevo

Paul SKINNER: Ford Madox Ford and the Unnoticeable Things

The Contributors

Abbreviations.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hampson, Robert Ford Madox Ford's Modernity

ISBN:

9789004488946

9004488944

OCLC:

1286429387

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004488946 DOI