Background
Wiesenfarth, Joseph John was born on August 20, 1933 in Brooklyn. Son of Charles Adam and Elizabeth Wiesenfarth.
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Engaging and energetic, this biography of Ford Madox Ford presents the modernist writer in a previously unexplored way. Other biographies have approached Ford as an author; indeed, his memoirs give almost no indication that the women in his life were of any importance or, in fact, that they ever existed. Literary scholar Joseph Wiesenfarth revises this approach by tracing Ford's relationships with four women central to his life. Wiesenfarth shows how these four women—Violet Hunt, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen, and Janice Biala—established themselves as artists in their own right and depicted Ford in their works as more than the "proper man" he thought himself to be. For the women, he was both a lover and a leaver, a collaborator and a companion. With an eye to original paintings and manuscripts, Wiesenfarth examines the artistic and romantic interplay among these writers, painters, and lovers. This book features a beautifully illustrated color and black-and-white gallery of Bowen and Biala paintings.
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Just what is it that relates Austen and Trollope, Brontë and Dickens to Eliot, James, Hardy, and Ford? How do novels like Pride and Prejudice and Barchester Towers and novels like Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations become part of Middlemarch, The Portrait of a Lady, Jude the Obscure, and Parade's End? For Joseph Wiesenfarth, the relationships and connections are bound up in what he calls Gothic Manners. His overarching argument is that the salient elements of two genres, that of the novel of manners and the new Gothic novel, come together and form a synthesis which accounts, in good part, for the greatness of “classical” English fictions. Building upon Bakhtinian premises, and combining scrupulous readings of the texts, Wiesenfarth gives us a balanced blend of theory, history, and interpretation to generate what will be cited as an important new tradition of the novel.
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Wiesenfarth, Joseph John was born on August 20, 1933 in Brooklyn. Son of Charles Adam and Elizabeth Wiesenfarth.
Bachelor, Catholic University America, 1956. Doctor of Philosophy, Catholic University America, 1962. Master of Arts, University Detroit, 1959.
Assistant professor English LaSalle University, Philadelphia, 1962—1964, Manhattan College, Bronx, New York, 1964—1967, associate professor English, 1967—1970, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1970—1976, professor English, 1976—2000, professor emeritus, 2000—2008.
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Member of Istituto di Studi Avanzati Bologna.
Married Louise Halpin, 1971. 1 child Adam Joseph Halpin.