Taking account of Ford Madox Ford's entire literary output, this companion brings together prominent Ford specialists to offer an overview of existing Ford scholarship and to suggest new directions in Ford studies. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is split into five parts, exploring the scholarly foundations of Ford Madox Ford studies, Ford's literary identity, Ford and place, specific case studies and themes and critical approaches. Within these five parts, the contributors cover areas relevant to Ford's fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including reception history, life-writing, literary histories, gender and comedy. The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Ford Studies, in modernism, and in the literary world that Ford helped shape in the early years of the twentieth century.
Introduction - Ford Studies in the Twenty-First Century: bibliography, criticism and the gap on the map, Sara Haslam
Part I: 'Scholarly Foundations'
Ford's Letters - Sara Haslam and Max Saunders
Ford's Reception History - Karolyn Steffens and Joseph Wiesenfarth
Ford, Book History, and the Canon - Lise Jaillant
Part II: 'Literary Identity'
Ford, Family, and Music - Nathan Waddell
Ford, Apprenticeship, and Collaboration - Gene Moore
Ford and Life-Writing - Jerome Boyd-Maunsell
Ford and the French Connection - Dominique Lemarchal
Ford as Poet - Ashley Chantler
Ford, Modernism, and Postmodernism - Isabelle Brasme
Ford and the First World War - Andy Frayn
Part III: 'Ford and place'
Ford's Urban Spaces - Laura Colombino
Ford's Rural Spaces - Paul Skinner
Ford's Transatlantic Visions - Meghan Marie Hammond
Ford's Continental Visions - Caroline Patey
Part IV: 'Case studies'
Ford's 'The Good Soldier' - John Attridge
Ford's 'Parade's End' - Peter Clasen and Max Saunders
Ford's Journalism - Stephen Rogers
Ford's Literary Histories - Angus Wrenn
Ford's Cultural Criticism - Dan Moore
Ford as Editor - Matt Huculak
Part V: 'Themes and Critical Approaches'
Ford and History - Seamus O'Malley
Ford's Style, Technique, and Theory - Rob Hawkes
Ford, Vision, and Media - Laura Colombino
Ford and Gender - Elizabeth Brunton
Ford and Comedy - Paul Skinner
Editing Ford - Sara Haslam, Max Saunders and Paul Skinner
Appendix of Ford's unpublished writing
