Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War

This book is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution.  Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the English Review, and author of The Good Soldier, he shaped the development of literary modernism.  Setting Ford in his cultural and historical context, the opening chapter debates the concept of fragmentation in modernism; later chapters discuss the notion of the personal narrative, and war writing.  Ford's literary technique is studied comparatively, and investigations of his major novels, The Good Soldier and Parade's End, are provided, as is a brief biography.

 

Fragmenting Modernism will be useful for anyone studying the literature of the early twentieth century, impressionism or modernism in general terms, as well as for those who seek to investigate in detail one of the great polymorphous figures of the time.