Ford Madox Ford A Dual Life: Volume Ii: The After-War World: 2 - Softcover

Saunders, Max

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199668353 ISBN 13: 9780199668359

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Synopsis

The second volume of Max Saunders's magisterial biography of Ford Madox Ford takes up the story from Ford's enlistment in the army and departure for France in 1916. Like its predecessor, The After-War World makes full use of previously unpublished and long-lost material. It is the first biography to establish Ford's importance to modern literature: exploring the relations between a writer's life, autobiography, and fiction, and showing how Ford's case challenges the conventions of literary biography itself. Saunders provides a ground-breaking reading of Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, and describes the founding of the transatlantic review, the influential literary journal that published Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Picasso, and many more major writers and artists.

Ford's personal relationships were no less complex than his work: while living with Stella Bowen after the breakup of his partnership with Violet Hunt he had a brief affair with Jean Rhys, but he was to spend his final years until his death in 1939, with the Polish American painter Janice Biala.

Throughout his career Ford endlessly reinvented himself, and this biography, for the first time, offers a sustained and critical account of his dazzling literary transformations.

About this title

About the Author

Max Saunders is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute and Professor of English and Co-Director at the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199668353
• ISBN 13: 9780199668359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720