(2007). The prophet and the sceptic: George Eliot and Ford Madox
Ford. In: Skinner, Paul ed. Ford Madox Ford's Literary Contacts.
International Ford Madox Ford Studies, 6. Amsterdam and New
York: Rodopi, pp. 49–62. Ford did not write very often, or very
much, about George Eliot. His critical reflections on her
writing occur on four occasions, in 1911, 1919, 1929 and 1931.
This essay contends that, despite the lack of frequency in his
critical comment, Eliot had a significant influence on the way
in which he thought about, and practised, writing. Discussing
each of his treaments of Eliot in detail, and also placing these
reactions in context, this chapter concludes with an assessment
of perhaps the most significant figure determinng Ford's
responses to Eliot: Henry James. ||Ford Madox Ford, George
Eliot, criticism, literature, writing, review, Henry James,
gender politics, the Novel, critical reception ||Arts > English
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