1st Edition

The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford

494 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

494 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

494 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Taking account of Ford Madox Ford’s entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existing Ford scholarship and to suggest new directions in Ford studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is split into five parts, exploring the scholarly foundations of Ford Madox Ford studies, Ford's literary identity, Ford and... Read more

Introduction - Ford Studies in the Twenty-First Century: bibliography, criticism and the gap on the map, Sara Haslam

Part I: 'Scholarly Foundations'

  • Ford's Letters - Sara Haslam and Max Saunders
  • Ford's Reception History - Karolyn Steffens and Joseph Wiesenfarth
  • Ford, Book History, and the Canon - Lise Jaillant

Part II: 'Literary Identity'

  • Ford, Family, and Music - Nathan Waddell
  • Ford, Apprenticeship, and Collaboration - Gene Moore
  • Ford and Life-Writing - Jerome Boyd-Maunsell
  • Ford and the French Connection - Dominique Lemarchal
  • Ford as Poet - Ashley Chantler
  • Ford, Modernism, and Postmodernism - Isabelle Brasme
  • Ford and the First World War - Andrew Frayn

Part III: 'Ford and place'

  • Ford's Urban Spaces - Laura Colombino
  • Ford's Rural Spaces - Paul Skinner
  • Ford's Transatlantic Visions - Meghan Marie Hammond
  • Ford's Continental Visions - Caroline Patey

Part IV: 'Case studies'

  • Ford's 'The Good Soldier' - John Attridge
  • Ford's 'Parade's End' - Peter Clasen and Max Saunders
  • Ford's Journalism - Stephen Rogers
  • Ford's Literary Histories - Angus Wrenn
  • Ford's Cultural Criticism - Dan Moore
  • Ford as Editor - Matt Huculak

Part V: 'Themes and Critical Approaches'

  • Ford and History - Seamus O'Malley
  • Ford's Style, Technique, and Theory - Rob Hawkes
  • Ford, Vision, and Media - Laura Colombino
  • Ford and Gender - Elizabeth Brunton
  • Ford and Comedy - Paul Skinner
  • Editing Ford - Sara Haslam, Max Saunders and Paul Skinner

Appendix of Ford's unpublished writing

Biography

Sara Haslam is Senior Lecturer in English at The Open University, UK.



Laura Colombino is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genova, Italy.



Seamus O’Malley is Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University, US.