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William Beckford's EPISODES OF VATHEK and the Architecture of Identity
Explicator, 2012The Episodes of William Beckford's Vathek (1786) offer evidence for understanding Beckford's use of architectural structures and their significance for the Gothic-moralistic vision of his narrative...
Sandro Jung
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William Beckford: Travel Writer, Travel Reader
The 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 In his early life, he was also an inveterate traveller, and the published and unpublished writing he produced on the basis of his travels vastly outweighed his fictional output, but has received surprisingly ...
Jarvis, Robin
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The hegemonic outsider: William Beckford's Lisbon journal
Studies in Travel Writing, 2010In 1787 William Beckford, author of Vathek, left England following some allegations of homosexual activity. Focusing on the private aspects of his Lisbon journal, which he never published in full during his lifetime, this essay examines Beckford's attempts at recovering a dignified status in Lisbon by relating to various forms of authority, such as ...
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William Beckford The Elusive Orientalist (oxford, 2016)
, 2016 Description: The writer and aesthete William Beckford (1760-1844) was a fascinating embodiment of the sublime egotist. Because of his extravagance, fabulousness and enigmatic nature, biographers have alternately presented him as an object of fascination or dismissed him as an insolent and deceptive character.
CHÂTEL, Laurent
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