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,
issue, or work; and relates aspects of Ford's writing, life, and
contacts, to broader concerns of his time. Ford is best-known for
his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long considered a
modernist masterpiece; and Parade's End, which Anthony Burgess
described as 'the finest novel about the First World War', Samuel
Hynes has called 'the greatest war novel ever written by an
Englishman', and which was adapted by Tom Stoppard for the
acclaimed 2012 BBC/HBO television series, starring Benedict
Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall. The twelve essays in this volume,
Ford Madox Ford's Cosmopolis, focus directly on the
internationalism so important to Ford, and bring out three main
ideas. First, his lifelong commitment to an international vision of
literature and culture. Second, 'Cosmopolis' also refers to Ford's
experiences of the particular cosmopolitan cities he lived in:
London, Paris, New York. Third, the idea that his lifelong
experience of Paris in particular informed and shaped his writing.
Ford's Cosmopolis is thus not only an ideal city or state open to
such cosmopolitan exchange. It is also a mode of writing which
invents forms and styles to render the experience of such
hybridity, diversity, fluidity, and tolerance. Contributors are:
Alexandra Becquet, Helen Chambers, Martina Ciceri, Laurence Davies,
Claire Davison, Annalisa Federici, Georges Letissier, Caroline
Patey, Andrea Rummel, Max Saunders, Rob Spence, Martin Stannard,
George Wickes, Joseph Wiesenfarth.
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