[Ford, Ford Madox] Brown, Dennis / Plastow, Jenny.

Ford Madox Ford and Englishness.

First edition. Amsterdam – New York, Rodopi, 2006. 15 x 22 cm. 286 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. [International Ford Madox Ford Studies – 5]

Includes for example the following chapters:Romances of Nationhood:Ford and the Adventure Story Tradition / The Impressionistic ‘Rendering’ of Englishness in Ford’s Fifth Queen Novels / The Decline of English Discourse and the American Invasion in The Good Soldier and Parade’s End / Escape from Englishness: The Rash Act and Henry For Hugh etc.

The controversial writer Ford Madox Ford is increasingly recognised as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. International Ford Madox Ford Studies has been founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; each will relate 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’. These works, together with his trilogy ‘The Fifth Queen’, about Henry VIII and Katherine Howard, are centrally concerned with the idea of Englishness. All these, and other works across Ford’s prolific oeuvre, are studied here. Critics of Edwardian and Modernist literature have been increasingly turning to Ford’s brilliant 1905 experiment in Impressionism, ‘The Soul of London’, as an exemplary text. His trilogy ‘England and The English’ (of which this forms the first part) provides a central reference-point for this volume, which presents Ford as a key contributor to Edwardian debates about the ‘Condition of England’. His complex, ironic attitude to Englishness makes his approach stand out from contemporary anxieties about race and degeneration, and anticipate the recent reconsideration of Englishness in response to post-colonialism, multiculturalism, globalization, devolution, and the expansion and development of the European Community.

Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer (17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Ford is now remembered for his novels The Good Soldier (1915), the Parade’s End tetralogy (1924–28) and The Fifth Queen trilogy (1906–08). The Good Soldier is frequently included among the great literature of the 20th century, including the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, The Observer’s “100 Greatest Novels of All Time”, and The Guardian’s “1000 novels everyone must read”. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: English Literary Criticism · Literary Criticism · Literary Criticism – Rare
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042020539
• Inventory Number: 41702AB

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