History and representation in Ford Madox Ford's writings / / Joseph Wiesenfarth.

• Superior document: International Ford Madox Ford Studies ; 3
• VerfasserIn: Wiesenfarth, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: International Ford Madox Ford Studies ; 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford's Writings explores the idea of history across various genres: fiction, autobiography, books about places and cultures, criticism, and poetry. 'I wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time', wrote Ford. The twenty leading specialists assembled for this volume consider his writing about twentieth-century events, especially the First World War; and also his representations of the past, particularly in his fine trilogy about Henry VIII and Katharine Howard, The Fifth Queen . Ford's provocative dealings with the relationship between fiction and history is shown to anticipate postmodern thinking about historiography and narrative. The collection includes essays by two acclaimed novelists, Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Judd, assessing Ford's grasp of literary history, and his place in it.

Table of Contents

Max SAUNDERS: General Editor's Preface -- Joseph WIESENFARTH: Introduction -- Patrick PARRINDER: 'All that is solid melts into air': Ford and the Spirit of Edwardian England -- Peter G. CHRISTENSEN: Contrasting 'Condition of the Country' Novels: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago -- Anne Marie FLANAGAN: Poised 'between anger and irony': Ford's Representation of Lady Mary -- Anthony P. MONTA: Parade's End in the Context of National Efficiency -- Vita FORTUNATI: The Impact of the First World War on Private Lives: A Comparison of European and American Writers (Ford, Hemingway, and Remarque) -- Paul SKINNER: The Painful Processes of Reconstruction: History in No Enemy and Last Post -- Jonathan BOULTER: 'After . . . Armageddon': Trauma and History in Ford Madox Ford's No Enemy -- Dominique LEMARCHAL: Ford's Paradoxical Development of the Personal Tone in the Writing of Propaganda -- Elena LAMBERTI: Writing History: Ford and the Debate on 'Objective Truth' in the Late 20th Century -- Jason HARDING: The Swan Song of Historical Romance: The Fifth Queen Trilogy -- Sara HASLAM: The Rash Act and Henry for Hugh: A Fordian History of Self-Construction (or: Where Is [M]other?) -- Alan JUDD: Using Ford in Fiction -- James M. SCANNELL: History or Quickie History: Elections in Anthony Trollope and Ford Madox Ford -- Robert E. McDONOUGH: Mister Bosphorus and the Muses: History and Representation in Ford's Modern Poem -- Angus WRENN: Henry, Hueffer, Holbein, History and Representation -- Max SAUNDERS: Critical Biography: Rhetoric, Tone and Autobiography in Ford's Critical Essays -- Harriet Y. COOPER: The Duality of Ford's Historical Imagination -- Andrzej GASIOREK: 'In the Mirror of the Arts': Ford's Modernism and the Reconstruction of Post-war Literary Culture -- Nicholas DELBANCO: An Old Man Mad about Writing -- The Contributors -- Abbreviations.