The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford wrote over 70 books, including several volumes of poetry and novels such as The Good Soldier. Martin Stannard is a professor of modern English literature at the University of Leicester, where he has taught since 1979. He was previously Leverhulme Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Muriel Spark: The Biography, Evelyn Waugh, The Early Years: 19031939 and Evelyn Waugh, The Later Years: 19391966, and editor of Evelyn Waugh, The Critical Heritage. His many articles and reviews have appeared in Modern Language Review, Essays in Criticism, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and Novel, among other publications.

Preface Acknowledgments The Text of The Good Soldier Dedicatory Letter to Stella Ford The Good Soldier Illustrations Map of Bad Nauheim, c. 1916 Deutsches Hof today Hotel Excelsior today Victorian and Edwardian Bad Nauheim The Old Kurhaus The Marburg Schloss Memorandum of Philip of Hesse, April 1521 Signatures of the Marburg Reformers Textual Appendices Abbreviations Cornell manuscript page A Note on the Text Manuscript Development and Textual Variants Contemporary Reviews The New York Times Book Review [U.S.] (March 7, 1915) Boston Transcript [U.S.] (March 17, 1915) Independent [U.S.] (March 22, 1915) Times Literary Supplement [U.K.] (March 25, 1915) Observer [U.K.], March 28, 1915) Rebecca West Daily News and Leader [U.K.] (April 2, 1915) Morning Post [U.K.] (April 5, 1915) Athaeneum [U.K.] (April 10, 1915) Outlook [U.K.] (April 17, 1915) C. E. Lawrence Daily Chronicle [U.K.] (April 28, 1915) Nation [U.S.] (April 29, 1915) Thomas Seccombe New Witness [U.K.] (June 3, 1915) Theodore Dreiser New Republic [U.S.] (June 12,1915) Saturday Review (Supplement) [U.K.] (June 19, 1915) Bookman [U.K.] (July 1915) Literary Impressionism John G. Peters Science and the Epistemological Origins of Literary IMPRESSIONISM Ian Watt [Impressionism and Symbolism in Ford, Conrad, and Crane] John A. Meixner [Fords Literary Technique] Joseph Conrad Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897) Henry James [The House of Fiction] Ford Madox Hueffer [Ford] On Impressionism First Article Second Article Ford Madox Ford [Developing the Theory of Impressionism with Conrad] Biographical and Critical Commentary Richard Aldington [Homage to Ford Madox Ford] Mark Schorer [The Good Soldier as Comedy] Samuel Hynes The Epistemology of The Good Soldier John A. Meixner [The Good Soldier as Tragedy] [Ford, Dowell, and the Sex Instinct] Grover Smith [Dowell as Untrustworthy Narrator] Frank Kermode [Recognition and Deception] Carol Jacobs [The Passion for Talk] Thomas C. Moser [The Narrative Stance of Marlow and Dowell] Michael Levenson Character in The Good Soldier Ann Barr Snitow [The Tragedy of Desire] Eugene Goodheart What Dowell Knew Vincent J. Cheng A Chronology of The Good Soldier Max Saunders [Desiring, Designing, Describing: Sexuality in The Good Soldier] Karen A. Hoffmann Am I no better than a eunuch?: Narrating Masculinity and Empire in The Good Soldier Colm Toibin Outsiders in England and the Art of Being Found Out Julian Barnes The Saddest Story Selected Bibliography