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Ford Madox Ford and the city /

"Ford Madox Ford and the City assembles fourteen pioneering essays, by new as well as established European and American scholars, exploring Ford's representations of real and ideal cities, across the full range of his work, from his earliest verse, to his post-war prose and poetry of the 1...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haslam, Sara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi : Ford Madox Ford Society, ©2005.
Colección:International Ford Madox Ford studies ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • General Editor's Preface
  • Introduction: Telling the City
  • SECTION 1: 'LONDON'
  • Not 'Accuracy' but 'Suggestiveness': Impressionism in The Soul of London
  • Angle of Elevation: Social Class, Transport and Perception of the City in The Soul of London
  • 'Close Up From a Distance': London and Englishness in Ford, Bram Stoker and Conan Doyle
  • Ford, the City, Impressionism and Modernism
  • Ford's Saddest Journey: London to London 1909-1936
  • City Burlesque: The Pleasures of Paranoia in Ford's Mister Bosphorus and the Muses
  • Ford's Pre-War Poetry and the 'Rotting City'
  • SECTION 2: 'THE BL-DY WORLD'
  • Coda to the City
  • Real Cities and Virtual Communities: Ford and the International Republic of Letters
  • Right Bank, Left Bank and an Island: Ford's Fragmented Ville Lumière
  • New York is Not America, But Then What Is?
  • New York Minutes: Ford's Notes on the City
  • 'Speak Up, Fordie!': How Some People Want to Go to Carcassonne
  • SECTION 3: FORD'S 'PORTRAITS OF CITIES'
  • Portraits of Cities: Three Essays from an Unfinished Work
  • Editorial Note
  • 1) Boston
  • 2) Denver
  • 3) Take Me Back to Tennessee [Nashville]
  • Contributors
  • Abstracts
  • Abbreviations.