The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1451723
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315612980
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472427380
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Research-Companion-to-Ford-Madox-Ford-1st-Edition/Haslam-Colombino-OMalley/p/book/9781472427380
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Additional information
- Ford Madox Ford is a pioneering figure in British modernism. The founder of two influential modernist magazines, he has also been called the best literary editor of the twentieth century. Haslam was approached by Routledge in 2012 to edit a volume focused on Ford’s war writing. The First World War anniversaries were approaching and the BBC/HBO adaptation of his war tetralogy, Parade’s End, had just aired. Haslam argued for a broader concept, to allow proper contextualised attention to his climactic post-war work. Routledge agreed this approach, and the final Research Companion proposal, produced by Haslam in conjunction with the two further editors she invited to join her on the project, was structured to review and assess, in 26 chapters, scholarship related to the whole of Ford’s writing career. Lead editor and main contact for the publisher (editorial labour on the individual chapters was divided equally), Haslam’s British Academy SRG (2015-16) allowed her to access the Ford archives at Cornell to harvest data (300+ letters) and 10 images for the volume. She was sole author of the 10,000-word Introduction, ‘Ford Studies in the Twenty-First Century.’ She wrote 60% of a 6,200-word chapter on Ford’s letters, work which led directly to a current Oxford University Press project, The Collected Letters of Ford Madox Ford. She also co-authored (33%) an 8,500-word chapter on editing Ford’s writing. The Companion brings together prominent Ford specialists and newer scholars. Each chapter also suggests new directions in Ford studies. In this combination it both supports and extends this area of literary scholarship for the current academic generation and those to come.
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