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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. The present book is part of a
large-scale reassessment of his roles in literary history. 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'. In these, as in most of his books,
Ford renders and analyses the crucial transformations in modern
society and culture. One of the most striking features of his
career is his close involvement with so many of the major
international literary groupings of his time. In the South-East of
England at the "fin-de-siecle," he collaborated for a decade with
Joseph Conrad, and befriended Henry James and H. G. Wells. In
Edwardian London he founded the "English Review," publishing these
writers alongside his new discoveries, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence,
and Wyndham Lewis. After the war he moved to France, 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 Joyce
and Gertrude Stein. Besides his role as contributor and enabler to
various versions of Modernism, Ford was also one of its most
entertaining chroniclers. This volume includes twelve new essays on
Ford's engagement with the literary networks and cultural shifts of
his era, by leading experts and younger scholars of Ford and
Modernism. Two of the essays are by well-known creative writers:
the novelist Colm Toibin, and the novelist and cultural commentator
Zinovy Zinik.
Insane Acquaintances explores a range of exhibitions, organisations
and institutions that mediated and promoted modernism in Britain.
In a series of case studies on subjects ranging from the first
Postimpressionist exhibition in London in 1910, the teaching of
modernist art in schools, the decoration and design of the
modernist home, the International Surrealist exhibition in London
in 1936 and the Festival of Britain in 1951, Insane Acquaintances
charts some of the ways in which modernism not only sought to
improve the quality of art but also the quality of art's reception
in Britain. It also provides an institutional history of some of
the groups and organisations that fostered modernist art in Britain
during that period.
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