ABSTRACT

Taking account of Ford Madox Ford’s entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existing Ford scholarship and to suggest new directions in Ford studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is split into five parts, exploring the scholarly foundations of Ford Madox Ford studies, Ford's literary identity, Ford and place, specific case studies and themes and critical approaches. Within these five parts, the contributors cover areas relevant to Ford’s fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including reception history, life-writing, literary histories, gender and comedy. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Ford Studies, in modernism, and in the literary world that Ford helped shape in the early years of the twentieth century.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

Ford studies in the twenty-first century: bibliography, criticism, and the gaps on the map

part I|2 pages

Scholarly foundations

chapter 1|14 pages

Ford’s letters

part II|2 pages

Literary identity

chapter 4|15 pages

Ford, family, and music

chapter 6|16 pages

Ford and life-writing

chapter 8|17 pages

Ford as poet

part III|2 pages

Ford and place

chapter 11|19 pages

Ford’s urban spaces

chapter 12|16 pages

Ford’s rural spaces

chapter 14|15 pages

Ford’s continental visions

part IV|2 pages

Case studies

chapter 15|16 pages

Ford’s The Good Soldier

chapter 16|29 pages

Ford’s Parade’s End

chapter 17|14 pages

Ford’s journalism

chapter 18|14 pages

Ford’s literary histories

chapter 19|16 pages

Ford’s cultural criticism

chapter 20|17 pages

Ford as editor

part V|2 pages

Themes and critical approaches

chapter 21|15 pages

Ford and history

chapter 22|16 pages

Ford’s style, technique, and theory

chapter 23|17 pages

Ford, Vision, and Media

chapter 24|14 pages

Ford and gender

chapter 25|14 pages

Ford and comedy

chapter 26|20 pages

Editing Ford