The Edwardian Ford Madox Ford (Editions Rodopi, 2013)
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: Edwardian Ford?; SECTION 1: FORD ON THE EDWARDIANLITERARY SCENE: PUBLISHING AND CRITICISM; Ford as Edwardian Author: Publishers, Trends, Markets; Ford Madox Ford: The Good Collaborator; Ford's Henry James as a Double Impression; Ford/Forster: Novel/Nuvvle; SECTION 2: CONCERN FOR THE COUNTRY; 'In This Dead-Dawning Century': Ford Madox Ford's Edwardian Poetry; Edwardian Idyll, Edwardian Mapping: The Heart of the Country; SECTION 3: EDWARDIAN ANXIETIES AND MODERN FICTIONS.
Empire of the Future:The Inheritors, Ford, Liberalism and Imperialism'That Neurasthenia Joke': Degeneration and Eugenicsin the Work of Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt; Modernity and the Technology of Communication in Ford Madox Ford's A Call and Henry James's In the Cage; From the Priest to the Therapist:Secrecy, Technique and Language in Ford Madox Ford'sA Call and May Sinclair's Anne Severn and the Fieldings; SECTION 4: FANTASY, VISION AND HISTORY; Ford's Early Fiction and 'Those Queer Effects of Real Life'
Ford Madox Ford on Hans Holbein, the Younger:Writing on Portraits and Portraits in WritingThe Fifth Queen, Revisionary Historyand the Staging of Nostalgia; 'Pretty Big and Serious':Ford Madox Ford and The Young Lovell; Contributors; Abstracts; Abbreviations; Other Volumes in the Series; The Ford Madox Ford Society
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 or issue; and relates aspects of Ford's work, 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 has been adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed BBC/HBO television series. This volume focuses on Ford's work from the Edwardian decade and a half before the First World War. It contains Michael Schmidt's Ford Madox Ford Lecture, and fourteen other essays by British, American, French and German experts, both leading authorities and younger scholars. Chapters on Ford's fiction, poetry, criticism of literature and painting, writing about England, and dealings on the Edwardian literary scene as editor and with publishers, bring out his versatility and ingenuity throughout his first major creative phase