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Article: The good soldier and capital's interiority complex.(Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier)(Critical essay)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- September 22, 2006
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As one of the best-known examples of English literary impressionism, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier (1915) is a story about the ephemeral, private, and anxiously guarded interiority of the bourgeois psychological subject. In other words, it is a story about objects. In the effort to secure the borders of a psychological interior against the swift urban rush of mobility, narrator John Dowell paradoxically works to create a sense of psychic and temporal integrity in and through identification with objects, specifically objects of exchange in a world of contingent international finance capital. Read in this way, the narrative relies on a division between perceiver and ...
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