Ford Madox Ford's the Good Soldier.

Intro -- Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Good Soldier: Tragic, Comic, Ironic -- 2 Tory-Papists and Ford's The Good Soldier -- 3 The Definition of Modernity in The Good Soldier -- 4 The Silences of Modernism in The Good Soldier -- 5 A Tale of Two Babies - One Dead, the Other Powerless to Be Born: Ambivalent Beginnings in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier -- 6 The Motive for Metaphor: The Words of a Sentimentalist in The Good Soldier -- 7 Rewriting Trauma: A Study of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier as Modernist Chronicle -- 8 "Nearly as Bright as in Provençe!": An Episode of Dowell's Narrative Passion -- 9 Not Just Another Perplexity -- 10 "Like Chasing a Scrap of Paper": Hysterical Detection in The Good Soldier -- 11 "Of the Question of the Sex-Instinct I Know Very Little": The Good Soldier and the Discourse of Indecency -- 12 "A Family Romance": Oedipal Melancholia and Masochism in The Good Soldier -- Index.

For its centenary this volume originally re-examines some well-known issues surrounding The Good Soldier (1915) and its "mad about writing" author. The dialogue between established and young Ford scholars produces a challenging kaleidoscope of insights.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.