Novelist of Three Worlds: Ford Madox FordAnalysis of Ford's development as a novelist by a description, discussion, and dissection of the major novels. |
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Page 195
... Victorian ab- surdity ; for if , on the one hand , Ashburnham is the victim in act of a faulty ethic , Dowell , on the other , is a Victorian mentality introverted and reflecting upon its own disaster . The result is a dramatic tension ...
... Victorian ab- surdity ; for if , on the one hand , Ashburnham is the victim in act of a faulty ethic , Dowell , on the other , is a Victorian mentality introverted and reflecting upon its own disaster . The result is a dramatic tension ...
Page 233
... Victorian war . But eminent late Victorian though he is , the General , while still " radiating glory , " reminds Tietjens of " an old apple inside a damascened helmet " ; and making , like Sylvia , his final main appearance in No More ...
... Victorian war . But eminent late Victorian though he is , the General , while still " radiating glory , " reminds Tietjens of " an old apple inside a damascened helmet " ; and making , like Sylvia , his final main appearance in No More ...
Page 236
... Victorian guile to the telephone that enables them to screen themselves and to compel attention ; but the distance that protects them also muffles their voices which recede in the din of a new era uncertain of the future but no longer ...
... Victorian guile to the telephone that enables them to screen themselves and to compel attention ; but the distance that protects them also muffles their voices which recede in the din of a new era uncertain of the future but no longer ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Forden route | 9 |
The Role of the Novelist | 26 |
Copyright | |
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