Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns: Edwardian Fiction and the First World War

R. Hawkes

Palgrave Macmillan UK, Sep 18, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 196 pages

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.

About the author

ROB HAWKES is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. He has taught previously at Leeds Trinity University, the University of East Anglia and the University of York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ford Madox Ford and the Misfit Moderns: Edwardian Fiction and the First World War
• Author: R. Hawkes
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012
• ISBN: 0230301533, 9780230301535
• Length: 196 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory