Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns [electronic resource] : Edwardian Fiction and the First World War /
Hawkes, R.author.
Ford Madox Ford is a major modernist writer, yet many of his works do not conform to our assumptions about modernism. Examining ways in which he, alongside other 'misfit moderns', undermines 'stabilities' we expect from novels and memoirs, this book poses questions about the nature of narrative and the distinction between modernism and modernity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Misfit Moderns; 1 Personalities of Paper: Character, Justification, and Narrative Space; 2 Casting Back: Plotting, Impressionism, and Temporality; 3 Fictionality at the Front: Genre, Trust, and the War Memoir; 4 Destruction/Reconstruction: Narrative, Shell Shock, and the War Novel; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ford Madox Ford is a major modernist writer, yet many of his works do not conform to our assumptions about modernism. Examining ways in which he, alongside other 'misfit moderns', undermines 'stabilities' we expect from novels and memoirs, this book poses questions about the nature of narrative and the distinction between modernism and modernity.
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
Literary History.