Ford Madox Ford by Max Saunders

Ford Madox Ford by Max Saunders

Ford Madox Ford wrote some of the best English prose of the twentieth century, mastering and metamorphosing all its major forms: the novel, literary criticism, travel writing, even historical and cultural discourse. He was also an innovative and influential poet, as well as the century's greatest literary editor. He collaborated with Joseph Conrad, and advised Ezra Pound; his admirers include novelists as diverse as Sinclair Lewis, Jean Rhys, Graham Greene, Anthony Burgess and Gore Vidal This first volume of a two-volume life takes Ford from his birth as Ford Hermann Hueffer in 1873 to the eve of his departure for France, and war, in 1916. It charts his growth and development as a writer of great complexity, first with the trilogy The Fifth Queen and culminating in his masterpiece The Good Soldier . It also examines his turbulent emotional life, from his elopement and marriage to Elsie Martindale in 1894 to his affair with Violet Hunt in the same year that he founded The English Review Ford said that a writer's life is 'a dual affair', a life enshrined in the writing and Max Saunders's aim is to examine the interconnections between the private and the public life, and the inner

MAX SAUNDERS is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Professor of English and Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London, where he teaches modern literature. He studied at the universities of Cambridge and Harvard, and was a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is the author of Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life, 2 vols (Oxford University Press, 1996) and Self Impression: Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of Modern Literature (Oxford University Press 2010); the editor of five volumes of Ford's writing, including an annotated critical edition of Some Do Not . . . (Carcanet, 2010), and has published essays on life-writing, on impressionism, and on a number of modern writers. He was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2008-10 to research the To-Day and To-Morrow book series; and in 2013 an Advanced Grant from the ERC for a 5-year collaborative project on Digital Life Writing.

SARA HASLAM is Senior Lecturer in English at the Open University. She is the author of Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War (Manchester University Press, 2002), and editor of Ford's The Good Soldier (Wordsworth Classics, 2010), and England and the English (Carcanet Press, 2003), as well as Ford Madox Ford and the City (Rodopi, 2005) and, with Seamus O'Malley, Ford Madox Ford and America (Rodopi, 2012). Further publications include Life Writing (Routledge, 2009, with Derek Neale), and chapters and articles on Henry James, Thomas Hardy, the Brontü¾˜¦”¼s, modernism, and the literature of the First World War, most recently in the Journal of First World War Studies, 4:2 (2013). She was a founder member of the Ford Madox Ford Society, and has been its Chair since 2007. Her annotated critical edition of Ford's A Man Could Stand Up - was published in 2011 (Carcanet Press).

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Titel	Ford Madox Ford
Autor	Max Saunders
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-02-01
Seitenanzahl	652
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