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Ford Madox Ford, France and Provence

Edited by Dominique Lemarchal and Claire Davison-Pégon

Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2011. 297+16 ill. pp. (International  
Ford Madox Ford Studies 10)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3347-4                        Paper
ISBN: 978-94-012-0046-2                        E-Book
Online info:  http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFMFS+10

The controversial British writer Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is  
increasingly recognized as a major presence in early twentieth-century  
literature. This series of International Ford Madox Ford Studies was  
founded to reflect the recent resurgence of interest in him. Each  
volume is based upon a particular theme or issue; and relates aspects  
of Ford's work, life, and contacts, to broader concerns of his time.
Ford is best-known for his fiction, especially The Good Soldier, long  
considered a modernist masterpiece; and Parade's End, which Anthony  
Burgess described as 'the finest novel about the First World War'; and  
Samuel Hynes has called 'the greatest war novel ever written by an  
Englishman'.
After the war Ford moved to France, beginning Parade's End on the  
Riviera, founding the transatlantic review in Paris, taking on  
Hemingway as a sub-editor, discovering another generation of  
Modernists such as Jean Rhys and Basil Bunting, and publishing them  
alongside James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. From the late 1920s he spent  
more time in his beloved Provence, where he took a house with the  
painter Janice Biala.
The present volume, combining contributions from eighteen British,  
French and American experts on Ford, and Modernism, has two connected  
sections. The first, on Ford's engagement with France and French  
culture, is introduced by an essay by Ford himself, written in French,  
about France, and republished and also translated here for the first  
time; and includes an essay on literary Paris of the 1920s by the  
leading biographer Hermione Lee. The second, on Ford and Provence, is  
introduced in an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes, and includes a  
selection of previously unpublished letters from Janice Biala about  
her life with Ford in Provence.
The volume also contains 16 pages of illustrations, including  
previously unseen photographs of Ford and Biala, and reproductions of  
Biala's paintings and drawings of Provence.

Contents
List of Illustrations
Max Saunders: General Editor's Preface
Dominique Lemarchal: An Introduction: Ford and France, Ford's  
Provence: Appry la Gair Finny
Section 1: Ford and France
Ford Madox Ford: Que Pensez-Vous de la France?
Hermione Lee:  'In Separate Directions': Ford Madox Ford and French Networks
Gil Charbonnier: Ford Madox Ford and Valery Larbaud: Critical Convergences
Christopher Bains: Poetic Triangulations: Ford, Pound, and the French  
Literary Tradition
Sam Trainor: Third Republic French Philosophy and Ford's Evolving  
Moral Topologies
Ellen Lévy: Maplines: Visions of France in Ford Madox Ford's No Enemy
Alexandra Becquet: Impressionist Confusion, Dissolving Landscape:  
Reconstructing Provence
Caroline Patey: France as Fieldwork, or, Ford the Ethnographer
Robert E. McDonough: Ford Madox Ford's Mirrors to France
Section 2: Ford and Provence
Julian Barnes: Ford and Provence
Hélène Aji: Letters to and from Toulon: Ford Madox Ford and Ezra  
Pound's Provençal Connections
Jason Andrew: In Provence: The Life of Ford Madox Ford and Biala
Illustrations
Angela Thirlwell: Ford's Provence: A Pre-Raphaelite Vision
Ashley Chantler: Ford Madox Ford and the Troubadours
Christine Reynier: Reading The Rash Act in the Light of Provence: The  
Encounter of Ethics and Aesthetics
Rob Hawkes: Trusting in Provence: Financial Crisis in The Rash Act and  
Henry for Hugh
Martin Stannard: Going South for Air: Ford Madox Ford's Provence
John Coyle: Ford, James and Daudet: The Charming Art of Touching up the Truth
Max Saunders: Ford's Thought-Experiments: Impressionism, Place,  
History, and 'the Frame of Mind That is Provence'
Contributors
Abstracts
Abbreviations
Other Volumes in the Series
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