Description: This is the first full-length critical study of Parade's End to focus on the psychological effects of the war.
Brief description: Dr Ashley Chantler is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester. He is the series editor of Character Studies (Continuum); author of 'Heart of Darkness' Character Studies (Continuum, 2008); co-editor of Translation Practices: Through Language to Culture (Rodopi, 2009), Studying English Literature (Continuum 2010), and Literature and Authenticity, 1780-1900 (Ashgate, 2011); and editor of the Ford Madox Ford Society Newsletter. He is currently editing, with Rob Hawkes, Ford Madox Ford: An Introduction (Ashgate).
Review Quotes: War and the Mind focusses subtly on Parade's End and the Great War but also illuminates many other works by Ford, William James, May Sinclair, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf. Essential reading for scholars of war and gender studies, trauma theory, modernism, and the fictional relation of sex to violence.--Martin Stannard "Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Leicester"