Ford Madox Ford's Modernity / / edited by Robert Hampson, Max Saunders.

• Superior document: International Ford Madox Ford Studies ; 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Hampson, Robert,; Saunders, Max,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: International Ford Madox Ford Studies ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (323 pages)

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.

Table of 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.