Randall, James Richard2018-08-212018-08-2119631963b1469251xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2144/30854Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityAfter being neglected, Ford Madox Ford has been re-discovered as an important novelist. This dissertation deals with Ford as a literary theorist and as an influence on other writers. Chapter I treats Ford's emergence with the help of Joseph Conrad from his Pre-Raphaelite background and his subsequent renunciation of Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics. Chapters II and III treat his theory of the novel and his acceptance of certain Flaubertian techniques, e.g. impressionism, the progression of effect, and the impersonal author [TRUNCTAED]en-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions.Ford, Ford MadoxEnglish literatureLiterary theoryThesis/Dissertation1171902203056599195227170001161