{"id":48,"date":"2017-09-27T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2017-09-29T08:04:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T08:04:54","slug":"ford-madox-ford-society-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/maxsaunders\/ford\/ford-madox-ford-society-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Ford Madox Ford Society studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WinchelseaPhoto\"<\/a>This new series has been published annually since 2002 by the Ford Madox Ford Society in association with Editions Rodopi B.V. in Amsterdam and New York. It aims to provide a forum for the best criticism devoted to Ford’s work, life and milieu. It is distributed to members of the Ford Madox Ford Society in exchange for their annual subscription, and is also available for sale from the Society and from the Publishers. Contributions are peer-reviewed. For further information about the Society and how to join it, please visit www.fordmadoxfordsociety.org<\/a>\/<\/p>\n

International Ford Madox Ford Studies<\/span><\/p>\n

General Editor: Max Saunders<\/span><\/p>\n

Ford Madox Ford has as often been a subject of controversy as a candidate for literary canonization. He was, nonetheless, a major presence in early twentieth-century literature, and he has remained a significant figure in the history of modern English and American literature for over a century now. Throughout that time he has been written about – not just by critics, but often by other gifted writers, such as Robert Lowell, Graham Greene, Gore Vidal, A. S. Byatt, and Julian Barnes. His two acknowledged masterpieces have remained in print since the 1940s. The Good Soldier now regularly figures in studies of Modernism and on its syllabuses. Parade’s End has been increasingly recognized as comparably important. It was described by Malcolm Bradbury as ‘a central Modernist novel of the 1920s, in which it is exemplary’; by Anthony Burgess as ‘the finest novel about the First World War’; and by Samuel Hynes as ‘the greatest war novel ever written by an Englishman’.
\nDuring the last decade or so, there has been a striking resurgence of interest in Ford and in the multifarious aspects of his work. As befits such an international and internationalist phenomenon as Ford himself, this critical attention has been markedly international, manifesting itself not only in the United Kingdom and the U. S. A., but in Continental Europe and beyond. Many of his works have not only been republished in their original language, but also translated into more than a dozen others.
\nThe founding of both the Society and the annual series reflects this increasing interest in Ford’s writing and the wider understanding of his role in literary history.<\/p>\n