Shaping influences in Ford Madox Ford: a study of the treatment of the impact of cultural tradition on motive and action in Ford's major novels

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), a prolific writer of novels, history, criticism, poetry and semi-autobiographical cultural and philosophical reminiscence cannot, except in the most general sense, be seen whole. The complexity of his private life, the range of his occupations (author, editor, farmer, soldier, professor) and the daunting list of over seventy publications imposes its strains on the reader who wishes to discover a focal point in Ford's work. [...]