Ford Madox Ford, France and Provence (Paperback)

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 or issue; and relates aspects of Ford's work, 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'; and Samuel Hynes has called 'the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman'. After the war Ford moved to France, beginning "Parade's End "on the Riviera, founding the "transatlantic review "in Paris, taking on Hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of Modernists such as Jean Rhys and Basil Bunting, and publishing them alongside James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. From the late 1920s he spent more time in his beloved Provence, where he took a house with the painter Janice Biala. The present volume, combining contributions from eighteen British, French and American experts on Ford, and Modernism, has two connected sections. The first, on Ford's engagement with France and French culture, is introduced by an essay by Ford himself, written in French, about France, and republished and also translated here for the first time; and includes an essay on literary Paris of the 1920s by the leading biographer Hermione Lee. The second, on Ford and Provence, is introduced in an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes, and includes a selection of previously unpublished letters from Janice Biala about her life with Ford in Provence. The volume also contains 16 pages of illustrations, including previously unseen photographs of Ford and Biala, and reproductions of Biala's paintings and drawings of Provence.

General

Imprint:	Editions Rodopi B.V.
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Ford Madox Ford Studies, 10
Release date:	June 2011
First published:	2011
Volume editors:	Dominique Lemarchal • Claire Davison-Pegon
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-90-420-3347-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Promotions
LSN:	90-420-3347-9
Barcode:	9789042033474

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