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Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: Volume II: The After-War World(Ford Madox Ford)

Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life: Volume II: The After-War World(Ford Madox Ford)


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The second volume of Max Saunders's magisterial biography of Ford Madox Ford takes up the story from Ford's enlistment in the army and departure for France in 1916. Like its predecessor, The After-War World makes full use of previously unpublished and long-lost material. It is the first biography to establish Ford's importance to modern literature: exploring the relations between a writer's life, autobiography, and fiction, and showing how Ford's case challenges the conventions of literary biography itself. Saunders provides a ground-breaking reading of Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, and describes the founding of the transatlantic review, the influential literary journal that published Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Picasso, and many more major writers and artists. Ford's personal relationships were no less complex than his work: while living with Stella Bowen after the breakup of his partnership with Violet Hunt he had a brief affair with Jean Rhys, but he was to spend his final years until his death in 1939, with the Polish American painter Janice Biala. Throughout his career Ford endlessly reinvented himself, and this biography, for the first time, offers a sustained and critical account of his dazzling literary transformations.

Table of Contents:
1: 1916: The Somme and Shell-Shock 2: 1916: Kemmel Hill and After 3: 1917: The Edge of Unreason 4: 1918: A Tale of Reconstruction: Stella Bowen 5: 1918: Armistice 6: 1919: Red Ford 7: The Post-War Writer 8: 1920-1921: Bedham: La Vie Littéraire ('Mr Croyd'. Thus to Revisit, The Marsden Case 9: 1922: The Last of England 10: 1923: Thus to Re-View 11: 1924: the transatlantic review 12: 1924: The Last of Conrad and of the transatlantic 13: Tall Stories 14: Parade's End 15: 1924-1926: Jean Rhys 16: 1926-1927: USA 17: 1927-1928: Provence, New York, Paris 18: 1928-1929: Elizabeth Cheatham 19: 1929: That Same Poor Man 20: 1930-1931: Janice Biala 21: Doubles 22: 1931-1933: Weathering the Depression 23: Ford's Autobiography 24: 1933-1935: On the Great Trade Route 25: 1935-1936: The Cause of Good Letters 26: 1937: Oliver and the Tates 27: 1938: 'An Old Man Mad About Writing' 28: 1938-1939: The Abyss

About the Author :
Max Saunders is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English and Co-Director at the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London.

Review :
`Review from previous edition Max Saunders knows more about Ford Madox Ford than any other living person. He also understands him better than anyone else. His scrupulous and passionate biography will never be superseded. ' Julian Barnes `magisterial biography ... It is a work of exemplary erudition, critical intelligence and sympathy.' Times Literary Supplement `This is an outstanding Life and a major contribution to literary scholarship. This biography releases him from the casualty clearing stations in which he has been detained for so long and restores him to active literary service.' Ian McIntyre, The Times `Saunders has produced a fine critical life which will be invaluable for all students of Ford's work and influence ... he has done a magnificent service to his subject in his thoughtful analysis of Ford's great tetralogy, Parade's End ... Saunders has produced a valuable academic work. Thoughtful, lucid and scrupulously objective, he restores Ford to us as a brilliant, much-maligned man - and a major literary figure.' Miranda Seymour, The Independent `Saunders has made a remarkable tribute to his subject, and his subject is irresistible.' Adrian Wright, The Literary Review `it is admirable that OUP decided to give Saunders a full-sized canvas to work on ... he makes excellent use of it ... This is the account to which all students of Ford will turn first. A main attraction of this majestically complete, balanced and well-written biography is the lavish quotation. This is a life which makes one want to go back to read, and re-read, Ford's works.' John Sutherland, The Sunday Times `definitive and ample biography ... Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life is both meticulous to a fault and bright with insight' The Times Higher Education Supplement `Saunders's book is a serious and valuable interpretation which enables us to look at Ford's dual life with much greater complexity.' The Guardian `No admirer of Ford Madox Ford will want to miss Max Saunders's two-volume ... about this extraordinary and complicated man. Saunders triumphantly establishes him as one of the most generous and influential figures of his time.' Miranda Seymour, The Sunday Times `persuasive and immensely authoritative account of a man who has, for far too long, been overshadowed by his bitchy and thankless protégés' Miranda Seymour, The Independent `Mr Saunders meets the challenge through his remorseless scholarship. In a sense, his two volumes are a lesson in anatomy, with the literary surgeon taking justifiable pride in his skill with the scalpel and delighting in the exposure of that particular sinew, that particular nerve ... no one wishing to understand Ford dare ignore his probings.' The Economist `The second, concluding volume of Max Saunders's magisterial biography of Ford Madox Ford amply fulfils the promise of the first. Max Saunders probably knows as much as can be known about Ford and his writing, and he reproduces it here with an intelligence, integrity and consideration for the reader that his subject - above all - would have appreciated. This must surely become the source-book for all future Fordians.' Alan Judd, The Daily Telegraph `The deep focus of Max Saunder's Ford Madox Ford, now completed by a second volume ... means that any other prospective Ford biographers out there can shut up shop.' Julian Barnes, The Sunday Times `his studies are as fresh as they are minute ... this is a celebration that could go on indefinitely, always intelligent, always considerate, always affectionate' London Review of Books


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199668359
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 720
  • Spine Width: 40 mm
  • Weight: 1072 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199668353
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Ford Madox Ford
  • Sub Title: Volume II: The After-War World
  • Width: 173 mm


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