Ford Madox Ford / Nathan Asch (edited by Alexandra Becquet). Introduction / Caroline Patey -- Paris fluctuat... Ford Madox Ford's urban psychogeography / Georges Letissier -- The city, the self and the real-and-imagined: Ford Madox Ford and Paris / Andrea Rummel -- Converging orbits: Ford Madox Ford, Russian Paris and the motifs of expatriation / Martina Ciceri -- 'Beautiful and instructive': Ford Madox Ford's encounter with popular culture / Rob Spence -- Dissolving views, or, the lives of 'bad, mad Bosphorus' / Laurence Davies -- The transatlantic review and the Nouvelle Revue Française -- between tradition and modernity: the Ford-Larbaud-Joyce connection / Annalisi Federici -- 'Adventures of the soul among masterpieces': Ford and France (Anatole) / Max Saunders -- 'Le traducteur E. M. (une femme)': Conrad, the Hueffers and the 1903 Maupassant translations / Helen Chambers -- Quartet with variations: Ford Madox Ford, Stella Bowen, Jean Rhys, Jean Lenglet / Joseph Wiesenfarth -- What Hemingway learned from Ford / George Wickes -- Ford and Biala: a Bohemian life / Martin Stannard -- Ford Madox Ford / Nathan Asch (edited by Alexandra Becquet).
Summary:
The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each volume is based upon a particular theme, issue, or work; and relates aspects of Ford's writing, 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', which Anthony Burgess described as "the finest novel about the First World War", Samuel Hynes has called "the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman", and which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed 2012 BBC/HBO television series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall. The twelve essays in this volume, 'Ford Madox Ford's Cosmopolis', focus directly on the internationalism so important to Ford, and bring out three main ideas. First, his lifelong commitment to an international vision of literature and culture. Second, 'Cosmopolis' also refers to Ford's experiences of the particular cosmopolitan cities he lived in: London, Paris, New York. Third, the idea that his lifelong experience of Paris in particular informed and shaped his writing. Ford's Cosmopolis is thus not only an ideal city or state open to such cosmopolitan exchange. It is also a mode of writing which invents forms and styles to render the experience of such hybridity, diversity, fluidity, and tolerance.
Series:
International Ford Madox Ford Studies, 1569-4070 ; 15
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