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Beckford's Insatiable Caliph: Oriental Despotism and Consumer Society
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2019:This article argues that William Beckford's oriental tale Vathek (published 1786) makes use of the trope of oriental despotism to address the experience of early British consumer society.
S. Rowe
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Forty New Books From William Beckford’s Library
LibraryIn 2022 Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill and the Beckford’s Tower Trust at Bath received between them some fifty-two books, some multi-volume, as distributed from the treasure trove that was the Blavatnik Honresfield collection of some 1,500 printed ...
Stephen Clarke
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Religion and Advanced Industrial Society
, 2019In this book James Beckford demonstrates that sociologists have much to gain from a strengthening of the connections between general theories about the changing character of modern western societies and specific studies of religion.
J. Beckford
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Music and Letters, 1966
ALL biographers of William Beckford, the author of 'Vathek' and creator of Fonthill, agree in recounting, on Beckford's own authority, that during the Mozarts' visit to England in I764-5 Beckford was given lessons in composition by the young Wolfgang Mozart.
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ALL biographers of William Beckford, the author of 'Vathek' and creator of Fonthill, agree in recounting, on Beckford's own authority, that during the Mozarts' visit to England in I764-5 Beckford was given lessons in composition by the young Wolfgang Mozart.
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Caribbean Picturesque from William Beckford to Contemporary Tourism
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920, 2020E. O’Callaghan
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Cahiers Charles V, 1988
Baridon Michel. La modernité de Beckford. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°9,1988. Le passé présent. Etudes sur la culture britannique pré-industrielle. Mélanges en l'honneur d'André Parreaux. pp. 19-40.
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Baridon Michel. La modernité de Beckford. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°9,1988. Le passé présent. Etudes sur la culture britannique pré-industrielle. Mélanges en l'honneur d'André Parreaux. pp. 19-40.
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