The Return of the Good Soldier: Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt's 1917 Diary

The historical setting of this diary offers us a glimpse of England at war through the eyes of a person who, though affected by it, did not cultivate political consciousness. Hunt emerges from her diary as a woman caught between unreconcilable forces: her desire for respectability and her pursuit of amorous sensation; her shrewd insight into her and Ford's character and her self-destructiveness in protracting a relationship she knows is doomed to failure; her self-dramatizing instinct, always ready to step back and watch herself in action, and her spontaneity; her pride and her abjectness; her wit and her sadness.

Author: Marie Secor, Robert Secor
Publisher: English Literary Studies
Published: 03/23/2016
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9780920604137

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