Criticism

Braybrooke, Neville. "The Walrus and the Windmill: A Study of Ford Madox Ford." The Sewanee Review 74 (1966): 810-31.

Considers the marital and extra-marital relationships of Ford's protagonists within the context of the sexual mores and political climate of late Victorian England.

Gordon, Ambrose, Jr. The Invisible Tent: The War Novels of Ford Madox Ford. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964, 153 p.

Study of Parade's End and three other novels Ford wrote.

Gose, Elliott B., Jr. "Reality to Romance: A Study of Ford's Parade's End." College English 17, No. 8 (May 1956): 445-50.

Traces the biographical origins of Christopher Tietjens in the lives of Ford and his friend Arthur Marwood.

Griffiths, Marlene. "A Double Reading of Parade's End." Modern Fiction Studies 9, No. I (Spring 1963): 25-38.

Analysis of Parade's End focusing on what the critic calls the novel's balanced treatment of "the world of social experience (external reality) and the world of personal sensibility (internal reality)."

Henighan, T. J. "Tietjens Transformed: A Reading of Parade's End." English Literature in Transition 15, No. 2 (1972): 144-57.

Comprehensive reading of the novel focusing on Ford's dramatization of Christopher Tietjens' emotional and mental transformation.

Hynes, Samuel. "Ford Madox Ford: 'Three Dedicatory Letters to Parade's End with Commentary and Notes." Modern Fiction Studies XVI, No. 4 (Winter 1970-71): 515-28.

Text and discussion of Ford's dedicatory letters to the first three novels of his Tietjens series.

Kashner, Rita J. "Tietjens' Education: Ford Madox Ford's Tetralogy." Critical Quarterly 8 (Summer 1966): 150-63.

Argues that The Last Post is "thematically congruous, and even necessary "yet "technically … unequal" to the preceding three novels of Parade's End.

Kenner, Hugh. "Remember That I Have Remembered." The Hudson Review III, No. 4 (Winter 1951): 602-11.

Discusses origins and context of critical interest in Ford's World War I novels during the early 1950s.

Levin, Gerald. "Character and Myth in Ford's Parade's End." Journal of Modern Literature I, No. 2 (1970-71): 183-96.

Consideration of the novel's central characters and their reflection of figures from classical literature and mythology.

Lid, R. W. "Modern Chronicle." In his Ford Madox Ford: The Essence of His Art, pp. 137-85. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964.

Detailed analysis of Parade's End described by the author as an "examination of the sources and development of Ford's narrative style, which is the essence of his art."

Meyer, Eric. "Ford's War and (Post)Modern Memory: Parade's End and National Allegory." Criticism XXXII, No. I (Winter 1990): 81-99.

Focuses on Parade's End as a "national narrative" which reconstructs the British experience of World War I through the story of Christopher Tietjens.

Mizener, Arthur. "A Large Fiction." In The Kenyon Review 13, No. I (Winter 1951): 142-47.

Addresses Ford's use of interior monologue and time-shift as narrative techniques in Parade's End.

Moser, Thomas C. "Parade's End as Christmas Pantomime." In The Life in the Fiction of Ford Madox Ford, pp. 214-53. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Traces similarities between Ford's personal life and the characters and events of Parade's End.

Seiden, Melvin. "The Living Dead—VI: Ford Madox Ford and His Tetralogy." The London Magazine 6, No. 8 (August 1959): 45-55.

Discusses the paradoxical personalities of Ford's characters in Parade's End and expresses hope for a revival of interest in Ford's novels.

Additional coverage of Ford's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 104,132; Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography: 1914-1945 ; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 34, 98; Major Twentietb-Century Writers, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 15, 39.