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War and the mind : Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end, modernism, and psychology / edited by Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes.

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This is the first full length critical study of Parade's End to focus on the psychological effects of World War I. These 10 essays focus on the psychological effects of the war, both upon Ford himself and upon his novel: its characters, its themes, and its form. The chapters explore: Ford'...

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Other Authors: Chantler, Ashley (Editor), Hawkes, Rob (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Ford, Ford Madox, > 1873-1939. > Parade's end.
World War, 1914-1918 > Psychological aspects.
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
Moderne.
Psychologie.
Weltkrieg (1914-1918)
World War (1914-1918)
Parade's end (Ford, Ford Madox)
Psychological aspects.
War and literature.
Table of Contents:
  • 'Sex ferocity' and 'the sadic lusts of certain novelists' : sexuality, sadomasochism, and suppression in Parade's End / Max Saunders
  • Freud Madox Ford : impressionism, psychoanalytic trauma theory, and Ford's wartime writing / Karolyn Steffens
  • Empathy, trauma, and the space of war in Parade's End / Eve Sorum
  • Fellow feeling in Ford's Last Post : modernist empathy and the eighteenth-century man / Meghan Marie Hammond
  • The self-analysis of Christopher Tietjens / Barbara Farnworth
  • Composing the war and the mind; composing Parade's End / Alexandra Becquet-- The work of sleep : insomnia and discipline in Ford and Sassoon / Sarah Kingston
  • Representing shell shock : a return to Ford and Rebecca West / Charlotte Jones
  • 'I hate soldiering' : Ford, May Sinclair, and war heroism / Leslie de Bont
  • Peace of mind in Parade's End / Gene M. Moore.

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