INTERNATIONAL
FORD
MADOX
FORD
STUDIES
This new series has been published annually since 2002 by the Ford Madox Ford Society in association with Editions Rodopi B.V. in Amsterdam and New York. It aims to provide a forum for the best criticism devoted to Ford's work, life and milieu. It is distributed to members of the Ford Madox Ford Society in exchange for their annual subscription, and is also available for sale from the Society and from the Publishers. Contributions are peer-reviewed. For further information about the Society and how to join it, please click here:
International Ford Madox Ford Studies
General Editor: Max Saunders
Ford Madox Ford has as often been a subject of controversy as a candidate
for literary canonization. He was, nonetheless, a major presence in early
twentieth-century literature, and he has remained a significant figure
in the history of modern English and American literature for over a century
now. Throughout that time he has been written about - not just by critics,
but often by other gifted writers, such as Robert Lowell, Graham Greene,
Gore Vidal, A. S. Byatt, and Julian Barnes. His two acknowledged masterpieces
have remained in print since the 1940s. The Good Soldier now regularly
figures in studies of Modernism and on its syllabuses. Parade's End has
been increasingly recognized as comparably important. It was described
by Malcolm Bradbury as 'a central Modernist novel of the 1920s, in which
it is exemplary'; by Anthony Burgess as 'the finest novel about the First
World War'; and by Samuel Hynes as 'the greatest war novel ever written
by an Englishman'.
During the last decade or so, there has been a striking resurgence of
interest in Ford and in the multifarious aspects of his work. As befits
such an international and internationalist phenomenon as Ford himself,
this critical attention has been markedly international, manifesting itself
not only in the United Kingdom and the U. S. A., but in Continental Europe
and beyond. Many of his works have not only been republished in their
original language, but also translated into more than a dozen others.
The founding of both the Society and the annual series reflects this increasing
interest in Ford's writing and the wider understanding of his role in
literary history.
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Volume 6
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Each volume is normally be based upon a particular theme or issue, relating aspects of Ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time.
Volumes already published:
Ford Madox Ford: A Reappraisal
Edited by Robert Hampson and Tony Davenport
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2002, VIII, 191 pp.
Focuses on some of the best of his poetry, writings on art, and less well-known
fiction: A Call, The Simple Life Limited, The Marsden Case, and The Rash
Act. Subsequent volumes will include:
Ford Madox Ford's Modernity
Edited by Robert Hampson and Max Saunders. Foreword by
Sir Frank Kermode. Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2003, X, 313 pp.
History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford's
Writings
Edited by Joseph Wiesenfarth
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2004, XI, 241 pp.
Ford Madox Ford and the City
ed. Sarah Haslam
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2005, 256 pp.
Includes three of Ford's 'Portraits of Cities', two of which are published
here for the first time.
Ford Madox Ford and Englishness
ed. Dennis Brown and Jenny Plastow
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2006, 304 pp.
Ford Madox Ford's Literary Contacts
ed. Paul Skinner
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2007, 276 pp.
Ford Madox Ford:Literary
Networks and Cultural Transformations
ed. Andrzej Gasiorek and Daniel Moore
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2008 (forthcoming)
Future volumes are planned on:
Ford and France
Ford and Visual Arts and Media
Ford and Editing
Ford and Germany
Ford and the First World War
Ford and America
The General Editor welcomes suggestions about future volumes or contributions. Please write to: max.saunders@kcl.ac.uk
Links:
Guidance for contributors on style and abbreviations
The web site of the Ford Society is: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/fordmadoxford-society/