Bibliography of Writing on Ford, 2000 Onwards

Updated 24 August 2009

This bibliography should be considered a supplement to: David Dow Harvey, Ford Madox Ford: 1873-1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962); and Max Saunders, ‘Ford Madox Ford: Further Bibliographies’, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 43:2 (2000), 131-205.

It is split into three parts:

• Periodical Articles;
• Books Significantly Mentioning or Drawing upon Ford;
• Dissertations on Ford.

Please inform Ashley Chantler of any errors, omissions or updates:
email: a.chantler@chester.ac.uk

With thanks to: John Attridge, Laura Colombino, Michael Copp, Andrew Frayn, Sara Haslam, Rob Hawkes, Michele Gemelos, Robert Gomme, Seamus O’Malley, Petra Rau, Stephen Rogers, Max Saunders, Paul Skinner.

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Periodical Articles

Attridge, John, ‘Steadily and Whole: Ford Madox Ford and Modernist Sociology’, Modernism/modernity, 15:2 (2008), 297-316.

Barnes, Julian, ‘The Saddest Story’, ‘Review’ supplement, Guardian (7 June 2008), 2-3.

Erll, Astrid, ‘The Great War Remembered: The Rhetoric of Collective Memory in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End and Arnold Zweig’s Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa’, Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 10:1 (2003), 49-75.

Flanagan, Anne Marie, ‘Ford’s Women: Between Fact and Fiction’, Journal of Modern Literature, 24:2 (2000), 235-49.

Gasiorek, Andrzej, ‘Ford Madox Ford’s Modernism and the Question of Tradition’, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, 44:1 (2001), 3-27.

Gasiorek, Andrzej, ‘The Politics of Cultural Nostalgia: History and Tradition in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End’, Literature & History, 3rd series, 11:2 (Autumn, 2002), 52-77.

Mulvihill, James, ‘Ford Madox Ford’s Parade's End Tetralogy and Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust’, Notes on Contemporary Literature, 32:3 (2002), 8-9.

Radford, Andrew, ‘The Gentleman’s Estate in Ford’s Parade's End’, Essays in Criticism: A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism, 52:4 (2002), 314-32.

Tóibín, Colm, ‘The Art of Being Found Out’, London Review of Books (20 Mar. 2008), 24-27.

Books Significantly Mentioning or Drawing upon Ford

Attridge, John, ‘“I Don’t Read Novels… I Know What’s in ’em”: Impersonality, Impressionism and Responsibility in Parade’s End’, in Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature, ed. Christine Reynier and Jean-Michael Ganteau (Montpellier: Université Montpellier III, 2005), 97-107.

Brown, Nicholas, Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). Chp. 4, ‘The Good Soldier and Parade’s End: Absolute Nostalgia.’

Brown, Dennis, and Jenny Plastow (eds), Ford Madox Ford and Englishness (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006).

Byatt, A. S., Portraits in Fiction (London: Chatto & Windus, 2001). Pp. 11-17 on The Fifth Queen.

Carabine, Keith, and Max Saunders (eds), Inter-Relations: Conrad, James, Ford, and Others (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).

Carr, Helen, The Verse Revolutionaries: Ezra Pound, H.D. and the Imagists (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009).

Cohen, Debra Rae, Remapping the Home Front: Locating Citizenship in British Women’s Great War Fiction (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002). Chp. 2, ‘Citizenship in the Salon: The Public Private War of Violet Hunt.’

Colombino, Laura, Ford Madox Ford: Vision, Visuality and Writing (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008).

Colombino, Laura, Ford Madox Ford: Visione/Visualità e Scrittura (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2003).

Colombino, Laura (ed.), Ford Madox Ford and Visual Culture (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009).

Colombino, Laura, ‘Negotiating with Gaugin’s “Solar Myth”: Art, Ecomony and Ideology in Ford Madox Ford’s Provence’, in Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean, ed. Caroline Patey, Giovanni Cianci and Francesca Cuojati (Milan: Cisalpino Instituto Editoriale Universitario, 2006), 51-64.

Edwards, Colin, ‘Dancing in the Mud: Bunting’s Documentary Tradition and the Anecdotage of Ford Madox Ford’, in Moment of Earth: Poems and Essays in Honour of Jeremy Hooker, ed. Christopher Meredith (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies, 2007), 101-113.

Fortunati, Vita, and Elena Lamberti (eds), Ford Madox Ford and ‘The Republic of Letters’ (Bologna: CLUEB [Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna], 2002).

Fowles, Anthony, Ford Madox Ford: The Principal Fiction (London: Greenwich Exchange, 2002).

Freeman, Nicholas, Conceiving the City: London, Literature, and Art 1870-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Quotations throughout from The Soul of London.

Gallix, François, The Good Soldier/Ford Madox Ford, introduction de Max Saunders, préface de Julian Barnes (Paris: Ellipses, 2005).

Gasiorek, Andrzej, and Daniel Moore (eds), Ford Madox Ford: Literary Networks and Cultural Transformations (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008).

Gomme, Robert, George Herbert Perris 1866-1920 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003). Pp. 49-51 on the 1894 Star case; pp. 176-81 on Father Gapon and David Soskice.

Grimble, Simon, Landscape, Writing and ‘The Condition of England’: 1878-1917, Ruskin to Modernism (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004). Chp. 5, ‘Ford Madox Ford – Somewhere to Stand: From “The Condition of England” to Modernism.’

Hampson, Robert, and Tony Davenport (eds), Ford Madox Ford: A Reappraisal (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002).

Hampson, Robert, and Max Saunders (eds), Ford Madox Ford’s Modernity (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2003).

Haslam, Sara (ed.), Ford Madox Ford and the City (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005).

Haslam, Sara, Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002).

Haslam, Sara, ‘The Good Soldier’, in A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, ed. David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 350-57.

Katz, Tamar, Impressionist Subjects: Gender, Interiority, and Modernist Fiction in England (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000). Chp. 4, ‘Ford, Femininity, and Unreliable Narration.’

Lemarchal, Dominique, The Good Soldier de Ford Madox Ford (Paris: Ellipses, 2005).

Londraville, Richard, and Janis Londraville (eds), Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford: Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001).

Matz, Jesse, Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Chp. 4, ‘The Distant Laborer: Proust in Eulalie’s Bedroom; Conrad’s Distant Laborer; Ford’s Peasant Cabman.’

Moody, A. David, Ezra Pound: Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work: Volume I: The Young Genius 1885-1920 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Morrisson, Mark, The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920 (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). Chp. 1, ‘The Myth of the Whole and Ford’s English Review: Edwardian Monthlies, the Mercure de France, and Early British Modernism.’

Pizzichini, Lilian, The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys (London: Bloomsbury, 2009).

Rademacher, Jörg W. (ed.), Modernism and the Individual Talent: Re-Canonizing Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) (Hamburg and London: Lit Verlag, 2002).

Rademacher, Jörg W., and Christian Steinhagen, Gelehrtes Münster und Rundum (Berlin: Verlag Jena 1800, 2005). Includes Ford and Violet Hunt among the eighty-eight writers, philosophers and theologians associated with the city.

Rau, Petra, English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009). Chps 2 and 4 draw substantially on Ford.

Saunders, Max, ‘Literary Impressionism’, in A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, ed. David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 204-11.

Skinner, Paul (ed.), Ford Madox Ford’s Literary Contacts (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007).

Sorum, Eve, ‘Mourning and Moving On: Life After War in Ford Madox Ford’s The Last Post’, in Modernism and Mourning, ed. Patricia Rae (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2007), 154-67.

Stallworthy, Jon, Survivor’s Songs: From Maldon to the Somme (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Pp. 137-45 on Parade’s End.

Terzieva-Artemis, Rossita (ed.), Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009).

Trotter, David, Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Chp. 6, ‘Ford’s Impressionism’.

Vogeler, Martha, Austin Harrison and the English Review (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008). See Ford Madox Ford Society Newletter, 15 (30 Mar. 2009), 4.

Wiesenfarth, Joseph, Ford Madox Ford and the Regiment of Women: Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, Janice Biala (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).

Wiesenfarth, Joseph (ed.), History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford’s Writings (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004).

Wollaeger, Mark, Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006). On Between St. Dennis and St. George, The Good Soldier, When Blood Is Their Argument.

Wulfman, Cliff, ‘Ford Madox Ford and The English Review (1908-1937)’, in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I: Britain and Ireland, 1880-1955, ed. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 226-39.

Dissertations on Ford

Attridge, John, ‘Impressionism and Professionalism: Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, and the Performance of Authorship.’ Ph.D. Diss. University of Sydney, 2007.

Bonikowski, John Wyatt, ‘Traces of War: Shell Shock, Death Drive, and Narrative After the First World War.’ Ph.D. Diss. Cornell University, 2006.

Brasme, Isabelle, ‘Parade’s End de Ford Madox Ford: Vers une Esthétique de la Crise’ (‘Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End: Towards an Aesthetics of Crisis’). Ph.D. Diss. University of Paris VII, 2008.

Chantler, Ashley, ‘A Critical Edition of Ford Madox Ford’s The Questions at the Well (1893).’ Ph.D. Diss. University of Leicester, 2003.

Frayn, Andrew, ‘Writing Disenchantment: The Development of First World War Prose, 1918-1930.’ Ph.D. Diss. University of Manchester, 2008.

Gemelos, Michele, ‘Identity and the Empire City: British Writing About New York, 1897-1931.’ Ph. D. Diss. University of Oxford, 2007.

Hawkes, Rob, ‘Destabilising Narratives: Characterising, Plotting, and Trusting in Ford Madox Ford’s Fiction.’ Ph.D. Diss. University of York, 2008.