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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... historical novels by seeking to identify himself , like Flaubert in Salambô , with the point of view of a past age - Ford helped to advance an important trend in fiction from The Good Soldier through The Great Gatsby and Absalom ...
... historical novels by seeking to identify himself , like Flaubert in Salambô , with the point of view of a past age - Ford helped to advance an important trend in fiction from The Good Soldier through The Great Gatsby and Absalom ...
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... Historical Fiction SINCE Ford wished all of his literary work to represent his position of historian of his time , it may seem at first arbitrary to set apart from the rest of his fiction the novels dealing with the past and to put ...
... Historical Fiction SINCE Ford wished all of his literary work to represent his position of historian of his time , it may seem at first arbitrary to set apart from the rest of his fiction the novels dealing with the past and to put ...
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... historical perspective . The novels , in fact , are too somber , too intolerant of a care- less optimism , to consort well with the popular term " romance " which custom perhaps obliged Ford to attach to them ; for much of their ...
... historical perspective . The novels , in fact , are too somber , too intolerant of a care- less optimism , to consort well with the popular term " romance " which custom perhaps obliged Ford to attach to them ; for much of their ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Forden route | 9 |
The Role of the Novelist | 26 |
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