This is a study of Ford Maddox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of "The English Review", and author of "The Good Soldier", he shaped the development of literary modernism. But as the grandson of Ford Maddox Brown, and a son of a German music critic, he also manifested formative links with mainland European culture and the visual arts. In Ford there is the chance to explore continuity in artistic life at the turn of the century, as well as the more commonly identified pattern of crisis in the time. The argument throughout is that modernism possesses more than one face. Setting Ford in his cultural and historical context, the opening chapter debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism; later chapters discuss the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing. Ford's literary technique is studied comparatively, and plot summaries of his major books ("The Good Soldier" and "Parade's End") are provided, as is a brief biography. The work should be useful for anyone studying the literature of the early 20th century.
Impressionism or modernism in general terms, as well as for those who seek to investigate one of the great polymorphous figures of the time.
- ISBN10 0719060559
- ISBN13 9780719060557
- Publish Date 8 August 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 July 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English