Ford and the First World War

Frayn, Andrew

Abstract

This chapter surveys Ford Madox Ford's writings about war. He was conscious of war writing by the beginning of the twentieth century via his friendship with Stephen Crane; the First World War, however, was the major conflict for Ford. He wrote about it repeatedly in poetry, fiction and essay form, continuing to work through the experience of being shell-shocked to the end of his life in 1939, on the cusp of another war.

• Acceptance Date: Aug 31, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018-12
• Deposit Date: Jul 25, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 1, 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Series Title: Routledge Research Companions
• Book Title: The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford
• Chapter Number: 10
• Keywords: First World War, modernism, war writing
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1295224
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Research-Companion-to-Ford-Madox-Ford/Haslam-Colombino-OMalley/p/book/9781472427380
• Contract Date: Jul 25, 2019