Ford Madox Ford’s Modernity

by Robert Hampson (Editor), Max Saunders

Ford Madox Ford's Modernity explores the relation between modern writing and modern experience. It examines how his prose registers the impact on society and the arts of new technologies, such as railways and telephones. It demonstrates how Ford's writing reflects, and elaborates, new conceptions of subjectivity, gender, nation and empire. And it establishes his contribution to the growing sense of crisis in the fields of history, epistemology, and representation. It includes essays by twenty leading Ford scholars on a wide range of his fiction and criticism, giving particular attention to The Good Soldier and to his responses to modern war.

323 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2003

Reviews

[Humphrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Several good essays, but compared to some of the great Good Soldier/Modernism essays out there, it isn't outstanding. That said, as the case for all of the entries in this series, FMF's Modernity greatly expands the bounds of what gets talked about - something sorely needed prior to the series' inception. I found Caserio's article especially insightful / against the grain.