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Ford Madox Fordâs Paradeâs End
The First World War, Culture, and Modernity
Series: - International Ford Madox Ford Studies, Volume: 13
The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873â1939) 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 Fordâs 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 Paradeâs End, which Anthony Burgess described as âthe finest novel about the First World Warâ, Samuel Hynes has called âthe greatest war novel ever written by an Englishmanâ, and which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed 2012 BBC/HBO television series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall.
Paradeâs End is the subject of the fifteen essays here, by both established experts and new scholars. The volume includes groundbreaking work on the psycho-geography of the war in Fordâs novels; on how the war intensifies self-consciousness about performance and sensation; and on the other writers and artists Ford drew upon, and argued with, in producing his post-war masterpiece.
Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a modernist masterpiece; and Paradeâs End, which Anthony Burgess described as âthe finest novel about the First World Warâ, Samuel Hynes has called âthe greatest war novel ever written by an Englishmanâ, and which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the acclaimed 2012 BBC/HBO television series, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall.
Paradeâs End is the subject of the fifteen essays here, by both established experts and new scholars. The volume includes groundbreaking work on the psycho-geography of the war in Fordâs novels; on how the war intensifies self-consciousness about performance and sensation; and on the other writers and artists Ford drew upon, and argued with, in producing his post-war masterpiece.
Max Saunders: General Editorâs Preface
Rob Hawkes: Introduction
Section 1: Sound, Silence, and Performance
John Attridge: âA Taboo on the Mention of Tabooâ: Taciturnity and Englishness in Paradeâs End and André Mauroisâ Les Silences du Colonel Bramble
Sara Haslam: From Conversation to Humiliation: Paradeâs End and the Eighteenth Century
Tom Vandevelde: âAre You Going to Mind the Noise?â: Mapping the Soundscape of Paradeâs End
Angus Wrenn: Wagnerâs Ring Cycle and Paradeâs End
John B. Murphy: âThe âind Legs of the Elephinkâ: Pantomime, Prophecy, and Tosh in Paradeâs End
Section 2: Psycho-Geography of War
Michael Charlesworth: Panorama, the Map, and the Divided Self: No Enemy, No More Parades, and Tolkienâs The Lord of the Rings
Elizabeth Hodges: Sight and Scale in Paradeâs End
Seamus OâMalley: How Much Mud Does a Man Need? Land and Liquidity in Paradeâs End
Paul Skinner: Tietjens Walking, Ford Talking
Adam Piette: War and Division in Paradeâs End
Section 3: Contrasts: Love, Death, and Alterity
Rob Spence: Ford and Lewis: The Attraction of Opposites
Austin Riede: âCleaned, Sand-Dried Bonesâ: Christopher Tietjens and the Labour of War
Isabelle Brasme: Articulations of Femininity in Paradeâs End
Alec Marsh: âBetter Farâ: Ford and Rossettian Attitudes
Joseph Wiesenfarth: Death in the Wasteland: Ford, Wells, and Waugh
Contributors
Abstracts
Other Volumes in the Series
The Ford Madox Ford Society
Rob Hawkes: Introduction
Section 1: Sound, Silence, and Performance
John Attridge: âA Taboo on the Mention of Tabooâ: Taciturnity and Englishness in Paradeâs End and André Mauroisâ Les Silences du Colonel Bramble
Sara Haslam: From Conversation to Humiliation: Paradeâs End and the Eighteenth Century
Tom Vandevelde: âAre You Going to Mind the Noise?â: Mapping the Soundscape of Paradeâs End
Angus Wrenn: Wagnerâs Ring Cycle and Paradeâs End
John B. Murphy: âThe âind Legs of the Elephinkâ: Pantomime, Prophecy, and Tosh in Paradeâs End
Section 2: Psycho-Geography of War
Michael Charlesworth: Panorama, the Map, and the Divided Self: No Enemy, No More Parades, and Tolkienâs The Lord of the Rings
Elizabeth Hodges: Sight and Scale in Paradeâs End
Seamus OâMalley: How Much Mud Does a Man Need? Land and Liquidity in Paradeâs End
Paul Skinner: Tietjens Walking, Ford Talking
Adam Piette: War and Division in Paradeâs End
Section 3: Contrasts: Love, Death, and Alterity
Rob Spence: Ford and Lewis: The Attraction of Opposites
Austin Riede: âCleaned, Sand-Dried Bonesâ: Christopher Tietjens and the Labour of War
Isabelle Brasme: Articulations of Femininity in Paradeâs End
Alec Marsh: âBetter Farâ: Ford and Rossettian Attitudes
Joseph Wiesenfarth: Death in the Wasteland: Ford, Wells, and Waugh
Contributors
Abstracts
Other Volumes in the Series
The Ford Madox Ford Society