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Composing and decomposing the corpus of William Beckford: French and English Beckford
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William de Beckford, King's Clerk
2023Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 39, 43 ...
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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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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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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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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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Forty New Books From William Beckford’s Library
The LibraryAbstract In 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 books and exceptional Romantic-era manuscripts that had been saved for the ...
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