Ford Madox Ford's Modernity / edited by Robert Hampson, Max Saunders
2003, 1st edition. Leiden; Boston : BRILL. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #427916
ISBN: 9042011874
Physical description; 313 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Subjects; Ford, Ford Madox 1873-1939 Criticism and interpretation. Ford, Ford Madox 1873-1939. Ford, Ford Madox. Social change in literature. Technology in literature. Authors, English 20th century History and criticism.
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