Principal Researcher: Adelaide Meira Serras
Duration: 2023-2025
Website: https://fordmadoxfordsymposium23.wordpress.com/
Ford Madox Ford project (2023-) is an in-house funded project organised by ULICES Research Group 2 – English Culture Studies with the collaboration of the Ford Madox Ford Society. Together with this international society, and the collaboration of Researchers from other RGs, especially RG1 – English Literature Studies. It seeks to promote knowledge and further investigation on Ford Madox Ford’s legacy. The project aims to bring due recognition to the topicality of Ford Madox Ford’s life (1873-1939) and works. His insightful representations and descriptions of the political, social and cultural status quo at the end of the Victorian Era and during the Edwardian period find echo on current issues and concerns such as war, violence and trauma, city life and fluid social fabric. Ford’s writings also provide relevant impact on memory studies, at individual and social/ cultural level worth exploring along diverse routes of approach. Besides his famous novels, The Good Soldier (1915), and the tetralogy Parade’s End (1924), his production extends to poetry, essay writing and journalism, memoirs, leaving ground for the exploration and analysis of a myriad of research possibilities.
In November 2023 the Ford Madox Ford Symposium was held at the School of Arts and Humanities with the participation of several members of the Ford Madox Ford Society to celebrate the century and half after his birth. A volume in a peer-reviewed indexed publication is planned for 2025.
