Taking account of Ford Madox Ford’s entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existing Ford scholarship and to suggest new directions in Ford studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is split into five parts, exploring the scholarly foundations of Ford Madox Ford studies, Ford's literary identity, Ford and place, specific case studies and themes and critical approaches. Within these five parts, the contributors cover areas relevant to Ford’s fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including reception history, life-writing, literary histories, gender and comedy. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Ford Studies, in modernism, and in the literary world that Ford helped shape in the early years of the twentieth century.
Sara Haslam is Senior Lecturer in English at The Open University, UK.Laura Colombino is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Genova, Italy.Seamus O’Malley is Assistant Professor of English at Yeshiva University, US.
Introduction - Ford Studies in the Twenty-First Century: bibliography, criticism and the gap on the map, Sara HaslamPart I: 'Scholarly Foundations'Ford's Letters - Sara Haslam and Max SaundersFord's Reception History - Karolyn Steffens and Joseph WiesenfarthFord, Book History, and the Canon - Lise JaillantPart II: 'Literary Identity'Ford, Family, and Music - Nathan WaddellFord, Apprenticeship, and Collaboration - Gene MooreFord and Life-Writing - Jerome Boyd-MaunsellFord and the French Connection - Dominique LemarchalFord as Poet - Ashley ChantlerFord, Modernism, and Postmodernism - Isabelle BrasmeFord and the First World War - Andy FraynPart III: 'Ford and place'Ford's Urban Spaces - Laura ColombinoFord's Rural Spaces - Paul SkinnerFord's Transatlantic Visions - Meghan Marie HammondFord's Continental Visions - Caroline PateyPart IV: 'Case studies'Ford's 'The Good Soldier' - John AttridgeFord's 'Parade's End' - Peter Clasen and Max SaundersFord's Journalism - Stephen RogersFord's Literary Histories - Angus WrennFord's Cultural Criticism - Dan MooreFord as Editor - Matt HuculakPart V: 'Themes and Critical Approaches'Ford and History - Seamus O'MalleyFord's Style, Technique, and Theory - Rob HawkesFord, Vision, and Media - Laura ColombinoFord and Gender - Elizabeth BruntonFord and Comedy - Paul SkinnerEditing Ford - Sara Haslam, Max Saunders and Paul SkinnerAppendix of Ford's unpublished writing