The short story and the First World War

Maunder, Andrew

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“…Bringing these stories together for the first time shifts our understanding of the development of Ford's response to the conflict and his literary style more generally. Einhaus only glances at Ford, referring to his founding of the English Review (Einhaus 2013, p. 44), to the reprinting of 'Fun!-It's Heaven' in Andrew Maunder's anthology (Maunder 2011a;Einhaus 2013, p. 69), and to his production of 'anti-German writing independent of a government commission' (Einhaus 2013, p. 121).…”

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The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920

Frayn

2024

Humanities

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This article analyses together, for the first time, Ford Madox Ford’s short stories about the First World War. A surprisingly unfamiliar form for Ford, who valued allusion, subtlety, and omission as narrative devices, we see in these stories his first attempts to parse his experience of wartime and, subsequently, military service. It is also an aspect of Ford’s writing which has received little previous critical comment. The wartime and post-war short stories are approached chronologically: ‘The Scaremonger: A Tale of the War Times’ (1914), ‘Fun!—It’s Heaven’ (1915), ‘Pink Flannel’ (1919), ‘The Colonel’s Shoes’ (1920), ‘Enigma’ ([1920–1922] 1999), and ‘The Miracle’ (1928). The contemporary debates in which Ford intervened are highlighted by returning to their original periodical publications, and extensive reference to a range of his non-fictional periodical contributions establishes new connections among his wartime writing. Here I bring together for the first time these short stories, arguing that Ford’s refracting of the war through the lens of his impressionism is distinctive as an early response to war, trauma, and neurosis and is vital to the genesis of his later successes in prose, notably the Parade’s End novel tetralogy (1924–1928).

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The First World War and Ford Madox Ford’s Short Stories, 1914–1920

Frayn

2024

Humanities

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