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The following is a new publication which might interest you. At the moment it is offered with 30% discount until July 31st*. More information at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 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on Ford and Provence, is introduced in an essay by the novelist Julian Barnes, and includes a selection of previously unpublished letters from Janice Biala about her life with Ford in Provence.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 The Ford Madox Ford Society *Please note that this offer is not valid in combination with any other offer -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.