The Good Soldier_ A Tale of Passion - Ford Madox Ford [18]
16. Ford Madox Hueffer, ‘On Impressionism’, Poetry and Drama, 2, Nos. 6 and 8 (June and December 1914), 167–75, 323–34. Quote from p. 333.
17. Ford Madox Hueffer, ‘Dedication to Christina and Katharine’, Ancient Lights and Certain New Reflections: Being the Memories of a Young Man (London: Chapman and Hall, 1911), xv.
18. Ford, Joseph Conrad, 6.
19. Smith, Ford Madox Ford, 30.
20. Carol Jacobs, ‘The (too) Good Soldier: “a real story” ’, Glyph, 3 (1978), 32–51, rep. in Telling Time: Lévi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 75–94. Quote from pp. 84–5.
21. Mark Schorer, ‘The Good Novelist in The Good Soldier,’ Princeton University Library Chronicle, 9 (April 1948), 128–33. Quotes from pp. 128 and 132, rep. in Stannard, 305–10.
22. Stang, Ford Madox Ford, 72–3.
23. Graham Greene, ‘Introduction’, The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford, 5 vols (London, Sydney, Toronto: The Bodley Head, 1962), i, 12.
24. Ford Madox Hueffer, The Spirit of the People: An Analysis of the English Mind (London: Alston Rivers, 1907), 148–50.
25. Martin Stannard has much of interest to say on the ‘much-debated date of completion’ of the novel and more specifically on Ford’s use of 4 August as a motif. See Stannard, 182–3.
26. Saunders, i, 406.
27. See, for example, the footnotes to Stannard, 71, 81,105,159.
28. Saunders, i, 438.
29. Saunders, i, 455.
30. Robert Green, Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 91. By ‘incest’, of course, Green alludes to Ashburnham’s relationship with Nancy, an angle on the novel developed at length by Saunders, i, 420–27.
31. Boston Transcript [USA] (17 March 1915), 24, rep. in Stannard, 220–21.
32. Daily News and Leader (2 April 1915), 6, rep. in Stannard, 222–4.
33. Quoted in Saunders, i, v.
Selected Reading
WORKS BY FORD
The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, eds. Sondra J. Stang and Karen Cochran (1994).
Critical Essays, eds. Max Saunders and Richard Stang (2002).
Critical Writings, ed. Frank MacShane (1964).
The Fifth Queen (Trilogy, 1906–1908: The Fifth Queen (1906), Privy Seal (1907) and The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908)). Available as a onevolume Penguin edition.
The Ford Madox Ford Reader, ed. Sondra J. Stang (1986).
The Good Soldier, ed. Martin Stannard (1995). This Norton Critical Edition is the standard scholarly text of the novel, containing very important textual (pp. 175–216) and extremely useful critical (pp. 219–398) appendices.
Letters of Ford Madox Ford, ed. Richard M. Ludwig (1965).
Memories and Impressions, ed. Michael Killigrew (1971).
Parade’s End (Tetralogy, 1924–1928: Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926) and Last Post (1928)). Available as a one-volume Penguin edition.
Pound/Ford, The Story of a Literary Friendship: The Correspondence between Ezra Pound and Ford Madox Ford and Their Writings about Each Other, ed. Brita Lindberg-Seyersted (1983).
War Prose, ed. Max Saunders (1999).
CRITICISM
Paul B. Armstrong, The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford (1987).
Todd K. Bender, Literary Impressionism in Jean Rhys, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad and Charlotte Brontë (1997).
Richard A. Cassell (ed.), Critical Essays on Ford Madox Ford (1987). ——, Ford Madox Ford: A Study of his Novels (1961).
Nicholas Delbanco, Group Portrait: Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, and H. G. Wells (1982).
Ambrose Gordon Jr., The Invisible Tent: The War Novels of Ford Madox Ford (1964).
Robert Green, Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politics (1981).
Sara Haslam, Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War (2002).
Samuel Hynes, Edwardian Occasions: Essays on English Writing in the Early Twentieth Century (1972). There are three fine essays on Ford and