Max Saunders
Notes
1. Anthony Burgess, in The Best of Everything, ed. William Davis (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980), p. 97.
2. Ford to his mother, Cathy Hueffer, 6 Sept, 1916: House of Lords Record Office.
3. Ford to his daughter Katharine Hueffer, 13 March 1918: Cornell University.
4. Ford Madox Ford, It was the Nightingale (London: Heinemann, 1934), pp. 177–80, 270.
5. Mary McCarthy, ‘The Unresigned Man’, New York Review of Books, 32:2 (14 February 1985), p. 27.
6. Henry James to Howard Sturgis, continuing a letter of 4 August 1914: Letters of Henry James, ed. Percy Lubbock, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1920), vol. 2, p. 398.
7. Ford Madox Ford, No Enemy (New York: Macaulay, 1929), p. 9.
8. Malcolm Bradbury, ‘Introduction’, Parade’s End (London: Everyman’s Library, 1992), pp. xiv-xv.
9. Ford Madox Ford to T. R. Smith, 27 July 1931: Cornell University.
10. Ford Madox Ford, It was the Nightingale, pp. 179–80.
11. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter (London: Secker & Warburg, 1948), p. 66.
12. Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man (London: Chatto and Windus, 1927), pp. 449, 100–01.
13. Ford Madox Ford, It was the Nightingale, pp. 48, 49.
14. Ford Madox Ford, ‘A Haughty and Proud Generation’, Yale Review, 11 (July 1922), pp. 703, 716–17.
15. W. H. Auden, ‘Il Faut Payer’, Mid-Century, no. 22 (February 1961), pp. 3–10.
16. Graham Greene, quoted on the dust jacket of the Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford, vols. 3 and 4.
17. William Carlos Williams, Selected Essays (New York: Random House, 1951), p. 316.
18. Samuel Hynes, ‘The Genre of No Enemy’, Antœus, no. 56 (Spring 1986, pp. 125–42), p. 140.
19. Malcolm Bradbury, op. cit., pp. xv, xii.
Textual Note and Select Bibliography
The individual novels of Parade’s End were published as follows:
Some Do Not… (London: Duckworth; New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1924)
No More Parades (London: Duckworth; New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925)
A Man Could Stand Up — (London: Duckworth; New York: Boni, 1926)
Last Post (London: Duckworth, 1928); The Last Post (New York: The Literary Guild of America, then Boni, 1928)
There are significant differences between the British and American editions, and an authoritative, annotated text has not yet been produced. The novels were republished individually by Penguin in 1948 – when the aftermath of the Second World War perhaps made them seem newly relevant. The current text follows that of the first one-volume edition of the tetralogy (New York: Knopf, 1950). Only the first three novels were included in The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford, ed. Graham Greene (London, 1963) as volumes III and IV. The important Dedicatory letters Ford wrote for the first editions of the last three novels were collected in the edition of his War Prose (see below).
Related Works by Ford
The Good Soldier (London: John Lane, 1915)
When Blood is Their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915)
Between St. Dennis and St. George: A Sketch of Three Civilisations (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915)
Zeppelin Nights, with Violet Hunt (London: John Lane, 1915)
The Trail of the Barbarians, translation of war pamphlet by Pierre Loti, L’Outrage des barbares (London: Longmans, Green, 1917 [actually published 1918])
On Heaven and Poems Written on Active Service (London: John Lane, 1918)
The Marsden Case (London: Duckworth, 1923)
Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (London: Duckworth, 1924)
No Enemy (New York: Macaulay, 1929)
It was the Nightingale (London: William Heinemann, 1934)
The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen, ed. Sondra J. Stang and Karen Cochran (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994)
War Prose, ed. Max Saunders (Manchester: Carcanet,1999)
Selected Criticism on Parade’s End
W. H. Auden, ‘Il Faut Prayer’, Mid-Century, No. 22 (February 1961), pp. 3–10
Malcolm Bradbury, ‘The Denuded Place: War and Form in Parade’s End and U. S. A.’, in Holger Klein, ed. The First World War in Fiction (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1978), pp. 193–209
Michela A. Calderaro, A Silent New World: Ford Madox Ford’s ‘Parade’s End’ (Bologna, CLUEB, 1993)
Ambrose Gordon, The Invisible Tent: The War Novels of Ford Madox Ford (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1964)
Robert Green, Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
David Dow Harvey, Ford Madox Ford: 1873–1939: A Bibliography of Works and Criticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962)
Robert Holton, Jarring Witnesses: Modem Fiction and the Representation of History (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994)
Rita Kashner, ‘Tietjens’ Education: Ford Madox Ford’s Tetralogy’, Critical Quarterly, 8 (1966), pp. 150–63
Thomas C. Moser, The Life in the Fiction of Ford Madox Ford (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
Max Saunders, Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); Volume 2
Melvin Seiden, ‘Persecution and Paranoia in Parade’s End,’ Criticism, 8/3 (Summer, 1996), pp. 246–62; reprinted in R. Cassell (editor), Ford Madox Ford: Modem Judgements (London: Macmillan, 1972)
Ann Barr Snitow, Ford Madox Ford and the Voice of Uncertainty (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984)
Trudi Tate, Modernism, History and the First World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998)
William Carlos Williams, review of Parade’s End, Sewanee Review, 59 (January-March 1951), pp. 154–61; reprinted in Selected Essays (New York: Random House, 1951), pp. 315–23
Joseph Wiesenfarth, Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel (Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989)
Some Do Not…
Part One
THE TWO YOUNG MEN — they were of the English public official class — sat in the perfectly appointed railway carriage. The leather straps to the windows were of virgin newness; the mirrors beneath the new luggage racks immaculate as if they had reflected very little; the bulging upholstery in its luxuriant, regulated curves was scarlet and yellow in an intricate, minute dragon pattern, the design of a geometrician in Cologne. The compartment smelt faintly, hygienically of admirable varnish; the train ran as smoothly — Tietjens remembered thinking —as British gilt-edged securities. It travelled fast; yet had it swayed or jolted over the rail joints, except at the curve before Tonbridge or over the points at Ashford where these eccentricities are expected and allowed for, Macmaster, Tietjens felt certain, would have written to the company. Perhaps he would even have written to the Times.