Ford and Toulon: Biography, Culture and Environment in the 1920s and 1930s
\nWhile there have been previous Ford Society conferences on the writer\u2019s life in
\nFrance, this venture represents an exciting opportunity to explore his life and work
\nin Toulon, the heart of the literary Riviera, in the 1920s and 1930s. A recent event,
\nin Montpellier, in September, 2017, organised by Isabelle Brasme, provided
\nevidence of current French academic interest in Ford\u2019s work, particularly among
\nthe postgraduate and early career community. The Toulon conference will build on
\nthis interest. To broaden relevance and reach further still, it will be tied in with
\nlocal tourist and cultural organisations, such as the \u00ab\u00a0Acad\u00e9mie du Var\u00a0\u00bb.
\nFord was in Toulon in 1925 as he was writing A Man Could Stand Up \u2013 volume 3
\nof his First World War masterpiece, Parade\u2019s End (1924-1928), and again in 1926.
\nRecent biographical excursions have begun to establish the whereabouts of the
\nstudios he and Stella Bowen found and rented, and later lent to James Joyce, for
\nexample. Toulon was a heart of the literary and artistic Riviera in the 1920s and
\n1930s, and this conference proposes to explore Ford\u2019s life and work at that heart, as
\nwell as the networks he nurtured while there – with Ezra Pound, for example, and
\nnumerous British and American expats and visitors. Other prominent writers close
\nto Ford, like Joseph Conrad, spent time in Toulon, and this conference will also
\nprovide the opportunity to explore those relationships, and that location as a way of
\nfocusing on particularly important aspects of them, to do with the cultural life
\nfound in and created by traditions around food, for example, and the writers\u2019 use of
\nthe French language. As Dominique Lemarchal has recently argued in an essay on
\nFord and Conrad, their communication in French was a crucial element of their
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Biography, Culture & Environment in the 1920s and 1930s Universit\u00e9 de Toulon: 28th & 29th June 2019 Amphi Y002, UFR Lettres, Campus de la Garde The Ford Madox Ford Society Ford and Toulon: Biography, Culture and Environment in the 1920s and 1930s While there have been previous Ford Society conferences on the writer\u2019s life in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/fordmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/fordmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/fordmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/fordmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/fordmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/fordmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/fordmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/fordmad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}