The politics of cultural nostalgia: History and tradition in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End

Literature and History

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 52-77

  Gasiorek, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.7227/lh.11.2.5     Document Type: Review

References (74)

1. T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England (London, 1980), p. 71
2. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy (London, 1934), p. 23
3. Stan Smith, The Origins of Modernism: Eliot, Pound, Yeats and the Rhetorics of Renewal (Hemel Hempstead, 1994), p. 11
4. Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End (Harmondsworth, 1982). All subsequent quotations are taken from this edition. Page numbers will follow in brackets
5. John A. Meixner, Ford Madox Ford's Novels: A Critical Study (Minneapolis, 1962), p. 205
6. Richard A. Cassell, Ford Madox Ford: A Study of his Novels (Baltimore, 1961), p. 247
7. E. V. Walter, 'The Political Sense of Ford Madox Ford', The New Republic (March 26 1956), 17-19, pp. 18 and 19
8. Elliott B. Ghose, Jr., 'Reality to Romance: A Study of Ford's Parade's End', College English 17: 8 (May 1956), 445-450, p. 446
9. Joseph J. Firebaugh, 'Tietjens and the Tradition', The Pacific Spectator, 6: 1 (Winter 1952), 23-32, p. 25
10. John A. Meixner, Ford's Novels, p. 220
11. John W. Derry, The Radical Tradition: Tom Paine to Lloyd George (London, 1967), p. viii
12. Ford Madox Hueffer, England and the English: An Interpretation (New York, 1907), p. 291
13. Douglas Goldring, South Lodge: Reminiscences of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford and the English Review Circle (London, 1943), p. 145
14. Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday: Reminiscences 1894-1914 (London, 1931), p. 76
15. For his hostility to utilitarianism, see Ford Madox Hueffer, The Critical Attitude (London, 1911), pp. 134-35
16. For specialisation, standardisation, and efficiency, see Hueffer, Critical, pp. 114-15 and p. 127
17. Ford Madox Hueffer, Ancient Lights and Certain New Reflections: Being the Memories of a Young Man (London, 1911), pp. 269-70 and p. 289
18. For his hatred of imperialism, see Ford Madox Ford, Return, pp. 50-51
19. Sondra J. Stang and Karen Cochran (eds), The Correspondence of Ford Madox Ford and Stella Bowen (Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1992), p. 36
20. Max Saunders, Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life. Vol 2: The After-War World (Oxford, 1996), pp. 205 and 206
21. John Burrow, A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past (Cambridge, 1981), p. 241
22. John W. Derry, Radical Tradition, p. vii
23. H. W. J. Edwards (ed.), The Radical Tory: Disraeli's Political Development Illustrated from his Original Writings and Speeches (London, 1937), pp. 21-22
24. H. W. J. Edwards, Radical Tory, p. 22
25. Robert Stewart, The Foundation of the Conservative Party, 1830-1867 (London, 1978), p. 170
26. John Burrow, Liberal Descent, pp. 77, 240, and 22
27. Richard Faber, Young England (London, 1987)
28. Robert Stewart, Foundation, p. 170
29. Lord Hugh Cecil, Conservatism (London, 1912), p. 169
30. Max Saunders, Ford Vol 1, p. 250
31. Douglas Goldring, South Lodge, p. 145
32. See Matthew Fforde, Conservatism and Collectivism, 1886-1914 (Edinburgh, 1990), p. 17
33. E. H. H. Green, Crisis, p. 15
34. Larry L. Witherell, Rebel on the Right: Henry Page Croft and the Crisis of British Conservatism, 1903-1914 (London, 1997), p. 18
35. Larry L. Witherell, Rebel, p. 18
36. For de Broke's belief in the need for a unifying party that would cohere around Tariff Reform, the Union with Ireland, imperialism, patriotism, and race regeneration see his article 'National Toryism', National Review, LIX (1912): 413-27. De Broke argues on the one hand in favour of eugenics, claiming that the science of 'good breeding ... affirms a Tory principle laid down by Disraeli that the health of the nation should be the first consideration of the statesman' (420), but on the other hand, in true radical right fashion, argues for social unity on the grounds that 'the main doctrine of Feudalism based on responsibility' is that the rich should 'serve' the poor so that 'both might serve the State' (422). See also de Broke's defence of imperialism and of a non-hereditary aristocracy based on the 'performance of duty' in his 'Introduction' to Arthur Boutwood's National Revival: A Re-Statement of Tory Principles (London, 1913), p. x
37. For Henry Page Croft, see Larry Witherell, Rebel
38. For a general discussion of these issues, see Alan Sykes, 'The Radical Right and the Crisis of Conservatism Before the First World War', The Historical Journal, 26: 3 (1983), 661-76
39. Geoffrey Searle, Corruption in British Politics, 1895-1930 (Oxford, 1987), pp. 344-345
40. Searle claims that Robert Cecil's post-war 'manifesto' had 'little impact' and that, as Kenneth Morgan argued, it should be seen as 'an anachronistic attempt to revive Bentinck's Young England Movement.' Geoffrey Searle, Corruption, p. 347
41. Martin Pugh, '1886-1905' in Anthony Seldon (ed.), How Tory Governments Fall: The Tory Party in Power Since 1783 (London, 1996): 189-228, p. 226
42. Max Saunders, Ford Vol 2, p. 208
43. Ford, Parade's, pp. 115-16, 187-88, 79, 60-63, 589, and 634-35
44. Robert Cecil argued that there was no essential connection between laissez-faire capitalism and conservatism and claimed that if people 'are to be free they must in the main be governed by spiritual and not by material forces.' See Lord Robert Cecil, 'Letter to Colonel Heaton-Ellis', The Times (April 22 1922), 18
45. Ford, Parade's, pp. 129 and 489-90
46. Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (New York, 1925), pp. v and vi
47. J. S. Critchley, Feudalism (London, 1978), p. 56
48. J. G. A. Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge, 1987), p. 249
49. J. G. A. Pocock, Ancient Constitution, p. 245
50. J. S. Critchley, Feudalism, p. 56
51. Alice Chandler, A Dream, p. 1
52. Keith Feiling, History of the Tory Party: 1640-1714 (Oxford, 1965), p. 493
53. H. T. Dickinson concurs, noting that the various Tory factions were unable to agree a coherent strategy to topple Walpole. See H. T. Dickinson, Walpole and the Whig Supremacy (London, 1973), 149
54. Christopher Hill, Century, p. 283
55. For a good discussion of these issues, see H. T. Dickinson, Walpole, Chapter 8
56. Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke, p. 167
57. David Cannadine, Decline and Fall, p. 336
58. G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England (Sevenoaks, 1994), p. 154
59. For a good discussion of the development of the opposing Tory view, see J. G. A. Pocock, 'Burke and the Ancient Constitution: A Problem in the History of Ideas', Politics, Language and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History (London, 1972): 202-32
60. See George Cor, 'Ordered Life and the Abysses of Chaos: Parade's End' in Richard A. Cassell (ed.), Critical Essays on Ford Madox Ford (Boston, 1987), 92-101, p. 101
61. John Meixner, Ford's Novels, p. 229
62. Theoharis C. Theoharis, 'No More Virgil', Antaeus: Ford Madox Ford Issue, 56 (Spring 1986), 93-106, p. 105
63. Ann Barr Snitow, Ford Madox Ford and the Voice of Uncertainty (Baton Rouge, 1984), pp. 207 and 231
64. See Jamie Camplin, The Rise of the Plutocrats: Wealth and Power in Edwardian England (London, 1978), p. 272
65. Robert Green, Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politics (Cambridge. 1981), p. 134
66. David Trotter, 'Hueffer's Englishness', Agenda: Special Ford Madox Ford Double Issue 27, 4:28, 1 (Winter 1989/Spring 1990): 148-155, p. 151
67. Alun Howkins, 'The Discovery of Rural England' in Robert Colls and Philip Dodd (eds), Englishness: Politics and Culture, 1880-1920 (London, 1986), p. 80
68. Wyndham Lewis, Blasting and Bombadiering: An Autobiography (1914-1926) (London, 1982), p. 2
69. Ezra Pound, 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' in Selected Poems: 1908-1959 (London, 1990), p. 100
70. Ford Madox Ford, The English Novel: From the Earliest Days to the Death of Joseph Conrad (Manchester, 1983), pp. 21 and 18
71. Ezra Pound, 'Mauberley', p. 101
72. Eliot, After Strange Gods, pp. 15, 16, 19, 29, and 62
73. Wyndham Lewis, The Letters of Wyndham Lewis, ed. W. K. Rose (London, 1963), p. 224
74. Ford, No More Parades, p. vii