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Ford Madox Fordâs Literary Contacts
Series: - International Ford Madox Ford Studies, Volume: 6
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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 or issue; and relates aspects of Fordâs work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time. The present book is part of a large-scale reassessment of his roles in literary history.
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; and Samuel Hynes has called âthe greatest war novel ever written by an Englishmanâ. But he was a prolific writer in many different modes, which include criticism of othersâ writing, and reminiscences of the many writers he had known. One of the most striking features of his career is his close involvement with so many of the major international literary groupings of his time. In the South-East of England at the fin-de-siècle, he collaborated for a decade with Joseph Conrad, and befriended Henry James, and H. G. Wells. In Edwardian London he founded the English Review, publishing these writers alongside his new discoveries, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis. After the war he moved to France, founding the transatlantic review in Paris, taking on Hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of Modernists such as Jean Rhys and Basil Bunting, and publishing them alongside Joyce and Gertrude Stein. He spent more time in America from the later 1920s, spending time with Southern Agrarians, and poets such as William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Robert Lowell. He was always a tireless promoter of younger writers, reading manuscripts and recommending them to publishers.
This book takes Fordâs âliterary contactsâ to include such creative friendships, editorial involvements, and influential biographical encounters; and they form the most substantial, central section on âContemporaries and Confrèresâ, covering figures like Proust, Carlos Williams, Rebecca West, Herbert Read, and Hemingway. But it also explores contacts with literary texts. The first section on âPredecessorsâ considers the impact of Fordâs reading of Trollope, George Eliot, and Turgenev. The final section discusses âSuccessorsâ: writers such as Graham Greene, Burgess, and A. S. Byatt, whose literary contacts with Ford have been as his admiring readers and eloquent critics. Ford has been described as âa writerâs writerâ. This volume reveals how true that has been, and in how many ways, as it sheds new light on his relationships with other writers, both familiar and surprising. It includes two pieces published here for the first time: one by Ford himself, on Turgenev; the other a memoir about Ford by his contemporary, Marie Belloc Lowndes (the sister of Hilaire Belloc).
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; and Samuel Hynes has called âthe greatest war novel ever written by an Englishmanâ. But he was a prolific writer in many different modes, which include criticism of othersâ writing, and reminiscences of the many writers he had known. One of the most striking features of his career is his close involvement with so many of the major international literary groupings of his time. In the South-East of England at the fin-de-siècle, he collaborated for a decade with Joseph Conrad, and befriended Henry James, and H. G. Wells. In Edwardian London he founded the English Review, publishing these writers alongside his new discoveries, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis. After the war he moved to France, founding the transatlantic review in Paris, taking on Hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of Modernists such as Jean Rhys and Basil Bunting, and publishing them alongside Joyce and Gertrude Stein. He spent more time in America from the later 1920s, spending time with Southern Agrarians, and poets such as William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Robert Lowell. He was always a tireless promoter of younger writers, reading manuscripts and recommending them to publishers.
This book takes Fordâs âliterary contactsâ to include such creative friendships, editorial involvements, and influential biographical encounters; and they form the most substantial, central section on âContemporaries and Confrèresâ, covering figures like Proust, Carlos Williams, Rebecca West, Herbert Read, and Hemingway. But it also explores contacts with literary texts. The first section on âPredecessorsâ considers the impact of Fordâs reading of Trollope, George Eliot, and Turgenev. The final section discusses âSuccessorsâ: writers such as Graham Greene, Burgess, and A. S. Byatt, whose literary contacts with Ford have been as his admiring readers and eloquent critics. Ford has been described as âa writerâs writerâ. This volume reveals how true that has been, and in how many ways, as it sheds new light on his relationships with other writers, both familiar and surprising. It includes two pieces published here for the first time: one by Ford himself, on Turgenev; the other a memoir about Ford by his contemporary, Marie Belloc Lowndes (the sister of Hilaire Belloc).
"Presents much that is novel while unobtrusively making a case for Fordâs massive importance to his time â¦" â J.H. Stape, in: English Literature in Transition 51/3 (2008), 330-333
"Skinnerâs collection demonstrates that one of the most arresting facets of Fordâs career is his close involvement with many of the key international literary groupings, coteries and urgent causes of his time⦠Skinnerâs collection makes a compelling case for Fordâs centrality on the literary scene during the Edwardian period and for a good twenty years after it." â Andrew Radford, in: Yearâs Work in English Studies (2009)
"If leaving the reader wanting more is an indication of success, this collection undoubtedly succeeds." â in: Modernism/Modernity, 16/1
"The sixth volume in the excellent International Ford Madox Ford Studies series [â¦] there are some excellent essays here that strike out into the present â¦" â Alan Munton, in: Lewisletter (2009), 16-17
"Skinnerâs collection demonstrates that one of the most arresting facets of Fordâs career is his close involvement with many of the key international literary groupings, coteries and urgent causes of his time⦠Skinnerâs collection makes a compelling case for Fordâs centrality on the literary scene during the Edwardian period and for a good twenty years after it." â Andrew Radford, in: Yearâs Work in English Studies (2009)
"If leaving the reader wanting more is an indication of success, this collection undoubtedly succeeds." â in: Modernism/Modernity, 16/1
"The sixth volume in the excellent International Ford Madox Ford Studies series [â¦] there are some excellent essays here that strike out into the present â¦" â Alan Munton, in: Lewisletter (2009), 16-17
Max SAUNDERS: General Editorâs Preface
Paul SKINNER: Introduction
Part one: Predecessors
Helen SOUTHWORTH: âThat Subtle and Difficult Thing: A National Spiritâ: Ford, Anglo-Saxondom and âthe Gorgeously Englishâ George Borrow
Monica C. LEWIS: Trollope Re-Read
Sara HASLAM: The Prophet and the Sceptic: George Eliot and Ford Madox Ford
Max SAUNDERS: Ford and Turgenev
Part two: Contemporaries and Confrères
Helen SMITH: Opposing Orbits: Ford, Edward Garnett and the Battle for Conrad
Susan Lowndes MARQUES: Marie Belloc Lowndes on Ford and Violet Hunt
Anat VERNITSKI: The Complexity of Truth: Ford and the Russians
John COYLE: Mourning and Rumour in Ford and Proust
Stephen ROGERS: âA Royal Personage in Disguiseâ: A Meeting between Ford and John Cowper Powys
Joseph WIESENFARTH: The Genius and the Donkey: The Brothers Hueffer at Home and Abroad
Christopher MACGOWAN: Ford Madox Ford and William Carlos Williams: The Country Squire and Dr. Carlos
Seamus OâMALLEY: The Return of the Soldier and Paradeâs End: Fordâs Reworking of Westâs Pastoral
MICHAEL PARASKOS: Herbert Readâs Dilemma: Fatherly Advice from FMF
Brian Ibbotson GROTH: All at Sea with Petronella: A Ford Madox Ford Biographical Mystery
Jörg W. RADEMACHER: Images of the First World War: Fordâs âIn October 1914â Read in the Context of Contemporary German Writers
Susan SWARTZLANDER: âThus to Revisit or Thus to Revise-Itâ: Ernest Hemingway, Defiant Disciple
Part three: Successors
Corwin BADEN: Richard Hughes: Fordâs âSecret Sharerâ
Bernard BERGONZI: Ford and Graham Greene
William MILL: Hueffer/Ford and Wilson/Burgess
Angus WRENN: âLong Letters about Ford Madox Fordâ: Fordâs Afterlife in the Work of Harold Pinter
Laura COLOMBINO: The Ghostly Surfaces of the Past: A Comparison between Fordâs Works and A. S. Byattâs The Virgin in the Garden
Contributors
Abstracts
Abbreviations
Paul SKINNER: Introduction
Part one: Predecessors
Helen SOUTHWORTH: âThat Subtle and Difficult Thing: A National Spiritâ: Ford, Anglo-Saxondom and âthe Gorgeously Englishâ George Borrow
Monica C. LEWIS: Trollope Re-Read
Sara HASLAM: The Prophet and the Sceptic: George Eliot and Ford Madox Ford
Max SAUNDERS: Ford and Turgenev
Part two: Contemporaries and Confrères
Helen SMITH: Opposing Orbits: Ford, Edward Garnett and the Battle for Conrad
Susan Lowndes MARQUES: Marie Belloc Lowndes on Ford and Violet Hunt
Anat VERNITSKI: The Complexity of Truth: Ford and the Russians
John COYLE: Mourning and Rumour in Ford and Proust
Stephen ROGERS: âA Royal Personage in Disguiseâ: A Meeting between Ford and John Cowper Powys
Joseph WIESENFARTH: The Genius and the Donkey: The Brothers Hueffer at Home and Abroad
Christopher MACGOWAN: Ford Madox Ford and William Carlos Williams: The Country Squire and Dr. Carlos
Seamus OâMALLEY: The Return of the Soldier and Paradeâs End: Fordâs Reworking of Westâs Pastoral
MICHAEL PARASKOS: Herbert Readâs Dilemma: Fatherly Advice from FMF
Brian Ibbotson GROTH: All at Sea with Petronella: A Ford Madox Ford Biographical Mystery
Jörg W. RADEMACHER: Images of the First World War: Fordâs âIn October 1914â Read in the Context of Contemporary German Writers
Susan SWARTZLANDER: âThus to Revisit or Thus to Revise-Itâ: Ernest Hemingway, Defiant Disciple
Part three: Successors
Corwin BADEN: Richard Hughes: Fordâs âSecret Sharerâ
Bernard BERGONZI: Ford and Graham Greene
William MILL: Hueffer/Ford and Wilson/Burgess
Angus WRENN: âLong Letters about Ford Madox Fordâ: Fordâs Afterlife in the Work of Harold Pinter
Laura COLOMBINO: The Ghostly Surfaces of the Past: A Comparison between Fordâs Works and A. S. Byattâs The Virgin in the Garden
Contributors
Abstracts
Abbreviations