The works of Ford Maddox Ford with particular reference to the novels

The present study is not biographical. It does, however, attempt to suggest the main lines of Ford's life and their immediate effect on his writing. Concentrating principally on his fiction, to which he gave himself most wholly, it examines his novels in chronological order and attempts to trace a course of development in them. This seems particularly necessary to do in the light of the legend Ford himself, with some excuse, spread that The Good Soldier, in fact his seventeenth independent novel, sprang from him unheralded in his forty-first year. The conclusion of this study is that The Good Soldier, probably the finest example of literary pure mathematics in English, is, as Ford considered it, his best achievement; but it attempts to trace in earlier novels experiments without which The Good Soldier would have been impossible.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

1963

Author dc:creator

• Coetzee, John M

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Howarth, R G

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22298

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/22298