England and the English

"This volume includes Ford Madox Ford's The Soul of London, The Heart of the Country, and The Spirit of the People. Published between 1905 and 1907, this trilogy investigates the changing culture of the English with originality and in ways that provide an excellent introduction to the work of this seminal modernist writer. Though a work of nonfiction, the trilogy eschews superficially factual history."

Introduction

viii

A Note on the Text

xxviii

Acknowledgements

xxix

ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH

The Soul of London

Introductory

3

(4)

From a Distance

7

(17)

No mental image of London from a distance

`He knows his London'

What he knows

The born Londoner

The provincial immigrant

His preconceptions

His aloneness

His induction

He becomes the Londoner

London, an abstraction

Its forgetfulness

Its tolerance

Its assimilative powers

London, a permanent World's Fair

Mental images of former Londoners

London illimitable

Trafalgar Square

A horse down

The Saturday-night market

Class views

What the Londoner sees from afar

The foreigner's view of London

The Londoner confronted with this view

Its effect on him

His ignorance of London

London, a background

What we remember of London

London manifesting itself on the clouds

Roads into London

24

(18)

Where the country ends

The three Londons

The psychological

The Administrative County

Natural London

The ring of blackened tree trunks

Elms

The new carriages

Entering on a motor car

Its effects on the mind

Distances to be thought of in new terms

Entering on an electric tram

The possibility of looking round

A manifestation of the modern spirit

The electric tram at night

Its romantic appearance

Entering London on a bicycle

Its tiresomeness

The just-outside-London 'bus

Entering London on foot

In a gipsy caravan

The most intolerant method of entry

The defect of rapid transit

The Londoner abroad no longer sought after

London the product of roads

The Thames

Roads historically considered

The watermen

The pampered jades of Belgia

Climbing skywards versus spreading out

Strata of past Londons

Workmen's dwellings

Georgian houses

`Parades'

The speculative builder

The pathos of his products

A fairylike effect near the Obelisk

Entering London on a market wagon

The dawn sounds of London

Entering London by barge

No longer a common method

Entering London by railway

The goods depot

The approach of the millennium

The London landscape from a train window

Its pathos

Uncompleted histories

A builder of the Pyramid of Cheops

Work in London

42

(24)

The oldest road

Gravesend

Its significance for sailors

Thames barges

The two kinds of work

Their union

Tilbury dock

The chief officer

The invisible rope

The two ends of London

The secret of London

The millionaire

The ferryman

The Italians

The streets paved with gold

The modern appeal

Former adventurers

The immense crowd

Buonaparte

Other Napoleons

The spirit of modern work

X

P

Hobbies

Methods of individual work

Routine work

The necessity for asserting an individuality

Women workers

The matchbox maker

Her ideals

The very poor

The caput mortuum

The obverse and reverse of the medal

The periodical press

The cabinet-maker

The personal element

Municipal Trading

The bank clerk

Stanley

The cement works

New processes

The battle field

London at Leisure

66

The omnibus yard

In search of work

`London's the place'

Why London holds us

The beleaguered fortress

The leisured classes

Social life

London freedom

Schopenhauer on English Society

Towards barbarism

The town of work

The islands of the blest

The exhaustion of leisure in London

The real good time

The third State

The chaffinch fancier

Other `fanciers'

`The pheasant raiser

The Rye fisherman

London's humour

Its diffusion

The power of generalisation

Effect on the countryman of the Daily Press

Effect on the Londoner

Emerson on London conversations

The disappearance of the raconteur

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