Ford Madox Ford and Englishness
Dennis Brown, Jenny Plastow (Author)
Ford's apprehension of the major social transformations of his age lets us read him as a precursor to cultural studies. He considered mass culture and its relation to literary traditions decades before writers like George Orwell, the Leavises, or Raymond Williams. The present book initiates a substantial reassessment, to be continued in future volumes in the series, of Ford's responses to these cultural transformations, his contacts with other writers, and his phases of activity as an editor working to transform modern literature. From another point of view, the essays here also develop the project established in earlier volumes, of reappraising Ford's engagement with the city, history, and modernity
Print Book, English, 2006
Rodopi : Ford Madox Ford Society, Amsterdam, New York, 2006
Aufsatzsammlung
290 pages ; 22 cm
9789042020535, 9042020539
76688114
John MOLE: Epigraph: ‘Fordie’Max SAUNDERS: General Editor’s PrefaceDennis BROWN and Jenny PLASTOW: Introduction Philip DAVIS: The Saving Remnant Ralph PARFECT: Romances of Nationhood: Ford and the Adventure Story TraditionSara HASLAM: England and Englishness: Ford’s First TrilogyAndrzej GASIOREK: Ford Among the Aliens Karen MCDERMOTT: The Impressionistic ‘Rendering’ of Englishness in Ford’s Fifth Queen Trilogy Donald MACKENZIE: A Road not Taken: Romance, History and Myth In Ford’s Fifth Queen Novels Peter EASINGWOOD: ‘What I am Always wanting to Say’: Ford Madox Ford and the English ‘Literary Myth’ Jason HARDING: The Englishness of The English Review Nick HUBBLE: Beyond Mimetic Englishness: Ford’s English Trilogy and The Good Soldier Anurag JAIN: When Propaganda is Your Argument: Ford and First World War PropagandaJenny PLASTOW: Englishness and WorkChristine BERBERICH: A Modernist Elegy to the Gentleman? Englishness and the Idea of the Gentleman in Ford’s The Good SoldierAustin RIEDE: The Decline of English Discourse and the American Invasion in The Good Soldier and Parade’s End Jörg W. RADEMACHER: Ford Madox Ford’s Englishness as Translated into German in Some Do Not . . . and No More ParadesRobert E. MCDONOUGH: Escape from Englishness: The Rash Act and Henry For Hugh Christopher MACGOWAN: History, Identity and Nationality in Ford’s Great Trade Route Dennis BROWN: ‘But One is English’: Ford’s Poetry 1893-1921ContributorsAbstractsAbbreviations