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The Reception of William Beckford in Portugal The reception of William Beckford in Portugal

open access: diamondSignótica, 2009
Neste artigo exploro novas pistas de investigação para o estudo da recepçãode William Beckford em Portugal. A produção literária de Beckford, sua vidae persona pública foram uma fonte de inspiração para escritores, estudiosos emúsicos em Portugal.
Maria Laura Bettencourt Pires
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Laurent Châtel, William Beckford, the Elusive Orientalist [PDF]

open access: diamondFééries, 2017
Ce livre, superbement imprime par la Voltaire Foundation, est le support d’une habilitation, il repose sur un double pari : d’une part, que le caractere « insaisissable » de Beckford et de son œuvre n’est pas un accident secondaire (meme si la seconde partie du livre etablit ce qu’il doit a divers accidents exterieurs), mais qu’il procede des choix ...
Jean-Paul Sermain
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Ethnic differences in the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical monitoring and hospitalisations for non-COVID conditions in England: a population-based, observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platformResearch in context [PDF]

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare and may have impacted ethnic inequalities in healthcare. We aimed to describe the impact of pandemic-related disruption on ethnic differences in clinical monitoring and hospital admissions ...
Ruth E. Costello   +268 more
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Paisagens domésticas do Portugal do viajante William Beckford. Itinerários com jardins, paredes, mobiliário, almofadas e sabores

open access: diamondRevista de História das Ideias
Percurso de vida do inglês William Beckford (1766-1844) na perspectiva de reconstituição do seu olhar como viajante. Explicitação desse seu olhar de viajante sobre o Portugal do final do século XVIII, nos registos diarísticos (1787, 1794), retocados ...
António Camões Gouveia
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Les sources des contes orientaux de William Beckford (Vathek et la « Suite des contes arabes ») : bilan de recherches sur les écrits et l’esthétique de Beckford

open access: diamondEtudes Epistémè, 2005
William Beckford (1760-1844) is essentially known for the singularity of his Vathek (1787-7) often presented in connection with the Gothic rage or the vogue for the oriental tale. However, Vathek was just one element in a larger « orientalist » ensemble.
Laurent Châtel
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Changes in sick notes associated with COVID-19 from 2020 to 2022: a cohort study in 24 million primary care patients in OpenSAFELY-TPP [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objectives Long-term sickness absence from employment has negative consequences for the economy and can lead to widened health inequalities. Sick notes (also called ‘fit notes’) are issued by general practitioners when a person cannot work for health ...
Andrew Steptoe   +191 more
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William Beckford: Travel Writer, Travel Reader

open access: greenThe Review of English Studies, 2013
© The Author 2013. William Beckford (1760-1844) is known chiefly as a collector, bibliophile, Orientalist, and author of the Gothic novel Vathek. In his early life, he was also an inveterate traveller, and the published and unpublished writing he produced on the basis of his travels vastly outweighed his fictional output, but has received surprisingly ...
Robin Jarvis
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William Beckford and the gothic charivari

open access: green, 2000
Conférence donnée à Somerset House, Londres. Une version augmentée a été publiés dans le "Beckford Journal" (été 2002, vol. 8.) 50-65.18 novembre 2000,
Didier Girard
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Rossi’s Saint Anthony, from Beckford’s Oratories to Sir Francis Cook’s ‘Sanctuary’ in Monserrate Palace, Portugal

open access: yesMDCCC 1800, 2021
William Beckford’s statue of Saint Anthony, sculpted by John Rossi, included one of the most valued pieces of his art collection. As this paper argues, this statue was modeled after a sixteenth century sculpture of the Church of Saint Anthony located ...
Neto, Maria João Baptista
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