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Lord Byron in the Footsteps of William Beckford
The Byron Journal, 2023This article examines Byron’s journey to and arrival in Lisbon in 1809 and shows how certain incidents and encounters during his stay closely mirror those of William Beckford’s travels in Portugal more than two decades earlier, suggesting how such parallels may explain some of Byron’s allegations against the Portuguese people in ...
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William de Beckford, King's Clerk
2023Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 39, 43 ...
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1989
A wealthy exotic, MP, and son of a Lord Mayor of London, Beckford spent two of his several periods on the Continent after sexual scandals (the second homosexual). On his return, he spent a fortune on his Gothic mansion, Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, whose huge octagonal tower collapsed shortly after its sale in 1822 for £300,000. His tower at the top of
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A wealthy exotic, MP, and son of a Lord Mayor of London, Beckford spent two of his several periods on the Continent after sexual scandals (the second homosexual). On his return, he spent a fortune on his Gothic mansion, Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, whose huge octagonal tower collapsed shortly after its sale in 1822 for £300,000. His tower at the top of
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1999
Abstract Remembered chiefly as the author of Vtithek (1786), one of the earliest gothic novels, William Beckford travelled extensively and lived extravagantly. He was also a member of Parliament. His burlesque of contemporary women’s writing, Azemia, published under the pseudonym ‘‘Jacquetta Agneta Mariana Jenks,” contains poetic ...
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Abstract Remembered chiefly as the author of Vtithek (1786), one of the earliest gothic novels, William Beckford travelled extensively and lived extravagantly. He was also a member of Parliament. His burlesque of contemporary women’s writing, Azemia, published under the pseudonym ‘‘Jacquetta Agneta Mariana Jenks,” contains poetic ...
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Ending in Infinity: William Beckford's Arabian Tale
Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1992W illiam Beckford's Vathek (1786), subtitled An Arabian Tale, displays an imagination and moral vision deeply penetrated by the perfumes of Arabia and the essence of Islam. Beckford's enthusiasm was not merely simple-minded ecstasy in a falsely perceived "Orient" of "sensuality, promise, terror, sublimity, idyllic pleasure, intense energy," like that ...
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Life after Pseudodeath: William Beckford's Vathek
The Explicator, 2009(2009). Life after Pseudodeath: William Beckford's Vathek. The Explicator: Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 170-173.
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Recycling Orientalia: William Beckford’s Aesthetics of Appropriation
2014Historians of science have recently shifted their attention from studying innovation and the production of knowledge to its consumption, dissemination, and circulation. Practices of stewardship probably extended into diverse sciences in many regions, but here most of the examples will come from the history of physical and chemical natural philosophy in
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Chapter 4 - Caribbean Picturesque from William Beckford to Contemporary Tourism
2021Evelyn O'callaghan, Tim Watson
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