Originally titled “The Saddest Story” and heralded by Graham Greene as “one of the finest novels of our century,” Ford’s 1915 tale of passion and deceit in the lives of two married couples is a modernist masterpiece. The Norton Critical Edition of The Good Soldier allows the reader to thoroughly study Ford’s great work and unravel its mysteries and meanings. This Second Edition is again based on the meticulously edited first text of the novel and offers detailed annotation, a note on the text, and sections on textual variants and manuscript development along with pertinent illustrations. "Backgrounds and Contexts" brings together important appraisals of the work directly following its publication. Reactions from Rebecca West and Theodore Dreiser are included among the reviews. The section also collects critiques on literary impressionism, including one by Ford, and related writings by Henry James and by frequent Ford collaborator Joseph Conrad, among others. "Biographical and Critical Commentary" collects differing assessments of The Good Soldier. Contributions from Richard Aldington, Samuel Hynes, John A. Meixner, Frank Kermode, Carol Jacobs, Thomas C. Moser, Ann Barr Snitow, and Vincent J. Cheng are joined by new selections from Colm Toibin, John G. Peters, Max Saunders, Karen A. Hoffman, and Julian Barnes. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-04-27
Mått130 x 211 x 25 mm
Vikt409 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNorton Critical Editions
Antal sidor448
Upplaga2
FörlagWW Norton & Co
ISBN9780393927924

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Ford Madox Ford wrote over 70 books, including several volumes of poetry and novels such as The Good Soldier. Martin Stannard is a professor of modern English literature at the University of Leicester, where he has taught since 1979. He was previously Leverhulme Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Muriel Spark: The Biography, Evelyn Waugh, The Early Years: 1903–1939 and Evelyn Waugh, The Later Years: 1939–1966, and editor of Evelyn Waugh, The Critical Heritage. His many articles and reviews have appeared in Modern Language Review, Essays in Criticism, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and Novel, among other publications.

Preface AcknowledgmentsThe Text of The Good SoldierDedicatory Letter to Stella FordThe Good SoldierIllustrationsMap of Bad Nauheim, c. 1916Deutsches Hof todayHotel Excelsior todayVictorian and Edwardian Bad NauheimThe Old KurhausThe Marburg SchlossMemorandum of Philip of Hesse, April 1521Signatures of the Marburg ReformersTextual AppendicesAbbreviationsCornell manuscript pageA Note on the TextManuscript Development and Textual VariantsContemporary ReviewsThe New York Times Book Review [U.S.] (March 7, 1915)Boston Transcript [U.S.] (March 17, 1915)Independent [U.S.] (March 22, 1915)Times Literary Supplement [U.K.] (March 25, 1915)Observer [U.K.], March 28, 1915)Rebecca West • Daily News and Leader [U.K.] (April 2, 1915)Morning Post [U.K.] (April 5, 1915)Athaeneum [U.K.] (April 10, 1915)Outlook [U.K.] (April 17, 1915)C. E. Lawrence • Daily Chronicle [U.K.] (April 28, 1915)Nation [U.S.] (April 29, 1915)Thomas Seccombe • New Witness [U.K.] (June 3, 1915)Theodore Dreiser • New Republic [U.S.] (June 12,1915)Saturday Review (Supplement) [U.K.] (June 19, 1915)Bookman [U.K.] (July 1915)Literary ImpressionismJohn G. Peters • Science and the Epistemological Origins of LiteraryIMPRESSIONISMIan Watt • [Impressionism and Symbolism in Ford, Conrad, and Crane]John A. Meixner • [Ford’s Literary Technique]Joseph Conrad • Preface to The Nigger of the “Narcissus” (1897)Henry James • [The House of Fiction]Ford Madox Hueffer [Ford] • On ImpressionismFirst ArticleSecond ArticleFord Madox Ford • [Developing the Theory of Impressionism with Conrad]Biographical and Critical CommentaryRichard Aldington • [Homage to Ford Madox Ford]Mark Schorer • [The Good Soldier as Comedy]Samuel Hynes • The Epistemology of The Good SoldierJohn A. Meixner • [The Good Soldier as Tragedy][Ford, Dowell, and the Sex Instinct]Grover Smith • [Dowell as Untrustworthy Narrator]Frank Kermode • [Recognition and Deception]Carol Jacobs • [The Passion for Talk]Thomas C. Moser • [The Narrative Stance of Marlow and Dowell]Michael Levenson • Character in The Good SoldierAnn Barr Snitow • [The Tragedy of Desire]Eugene Goodheart • What Dowell KnewVincent J. Cheng • A Chronology of The Good SoldierMax Saunders • [Desiring, Designing, Describing: Sexuality in The Good Soldier]Karen A. Hoffmann • “Am I no better than a eunuch?”: Narrating Masculinity and Empire in TheGood SoldierColm Toibin • Outsiders in England and the Art of Being Found OutJulian Barnes • The Saddest StorySelected Bibliography