The Good Soldier (Norton Critical Editions)

by Ford, Ford Madox; Stannard, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780393966343
• ISBN10: 0393966348
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition presents the first scrupulously editedtext of the novel, collating all manuscript, typescript, and variantprinted versions in Ford's lifetime. Everything necessary for careful study of the novel is here:comprehensive annotation, material on manuscript development andtextual variants, a detailed "Note on the Text", and relevantillustrations. Together, these materials present readers with both afreshly edited text and the opportunity to reconstruct alternativereadings. "Contemporary Reviews" includes fifteen important assessments of thework, all of which appeared within four months of the novel'spublication. "Literary Impressionism" collects eight critiques on the technique,including three by Ford and related writings by Henry James and JosephConrad, among others. "Biographical and Critical Commentary" collects seventeen differingassessments of The Good Soldier . Richard Aldington, Samuel Hynes, JohnA. Meixner, Frank Kermode, Carol Jacobs, Thomas C. Moser, Ann BarrSnitow, Vincent J. Cheng, and Paul B. Armstrong are among thecontributors. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xvi
Abbreviations	xvii
The Text of The Good Soldier
Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford	3	(6)
The Good Soldier	9	(166)
Illustrations
Map of Bad Nauheim, c. 1916	164	(2)
Deutsches Hof today	166	(1)
Hotel Excelsior today	166	(1)
Victorian and Edwardian Bad Nauheim	167	(1)
The old Kurhaus	168	(1)
The Marburg Schloss	169	(1)
Memorandum of Philip of Hesse, April 1521	170	(1)
Signatures of the Marburg Reformers	171	(4)
Textual Appendices
Abbreviations	175	(3)
Cornell manuscript page	178	(1)
A Note on the Text	179	(15)
Manuscript Development and Textual Variants	194	(25)
Contemporary Reviews
The New York Times Book Review [U.S.] (March 7, 1915)	219	(1)
Boston Transcript [U.S.] (March 17, 1915)	220	(1)
Independent [U.S.] (March 22, 1915)	221	(1)
Times Literary Supplement [U.K.] (March 25, 1915)	221	(1)
Observer [U.K.] (March 28, 1915)	221	(1)
Daily News and Leader [U.K.] (April 2, 1915)	222	(2)
Rebecca West
Morning Post [U.K.] (April 5, 1915)	224	(1)
Athenaeum [U.K.] (April 10, 1915)	225	(1)
Outlook [U.K.] (April 17, 1915)	226	(1)
Daily Chronicle [U.K.] (April 28, 1915)	227	(1)
C.E. Lawrence
Nation [U.S.] (April 29, 1915)	228	(1)
New Witness [U.K.] (June 3, 1915)	229	(2)
Thomas Seccombe
New Republic [U.S.] (June 12, 1915)	231	(3)
Theodore Dreiser
Saturday Review (Supplement) [U.K.] (June 19, 1915)	234	(1)
Bookman [U.K.] (July 1915)	234	(5)
Literary Impressionism
The Aesthetics of Literary Impressionism	239	(3)
Julia van Gunsteren
Impressionism and Symbolism in Ford, Conrad, and Crane	242	(5)
Ian Watt
Ford's Literary Technique	247	(6)
John A. Meixner
Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus'' (1897)	253	(3)
Joseph Conrad
The House of Fiction	256	(1)
Henry James
On Impressionism	257	(17)
Ford Madox Hueffer [Ford]
First Article	257	(7)
Second Article	264	(10)
Developing the Theory of Impressionism with Conrad	274	(29)
Ford Madox Ford
Techniques	285	(18)
Biographical and Critical Commentary
Homage to Ford Madox Ford	303	(2)
Richard Aldington
The Good Soldier as Comedy	305	(5)
Mark Schorer
The Epistemology of The Good Soldier	310	(8)
Samuel Hynes
The Good Soldier as Tragedy	318	(4)
John A. Meixner
Ford, Dowell, and the Sex Instinct	322	(3)
Arthur Mizener
Dowell as Untrustworthy Narrator	325	(5)
Grover Smith
Recognition and Deception	330	(7)
Frank Kermode
The Passion for Talk	337	(7)
Carol Jacobs
Comical-Tragical Illusions	344	(8)
David Eggenschwiler
The Narrative Stance of Marlow and Dowell	352	(6)
Thomas C. Moser
The Politics of Agnosticism	358	(4)
Robert Green
Character in The Good Soldier	362	(10)
Michael Levenson
The Tragedy of Desire	372	(3)
Ann Barr Snitow
What Dowell Knew	375	(9)
Eugene Goodheart
A Chronology of The Good Soldier	384	(4)
Vincent J. Cheng
Dowell as Trustworthy Narrator	388	(3)
Paul B. Armstong
Dowell as Unromantic Hero	391	(8)
David H. Lynn
Selected Bibliography	399