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Utopies paysagères : les sublimes "Progrès" de William Beckford (1760-1844)
It seemed apt to reflect on the various meanings of progress as one reached the last moments of the XXth century. In eighteenth-century British mentalités progress was a central notion since it pervaded most discourses, whether they were social ...
Châtel, Laurent
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L´EXOTISME LITTÉRARIE: RELECTURE DU CONTE DE VATHEK DE WILLIAM BECKFORD
Cuando se recorre la mayor parte de los trabajos críticos publicados acerca de Vathek de William Beckford, escritor de nacionalidad inglesa –que, no obstante, decidió publicar este cuento en lengua francesa- , quedamos sorprendidos, en tanto que lectores
Françoise Morcillo
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The Virtual Infernal: Philippe de Loutherbourg, William Beckford and the Spectacle of the Sublime
In the autumn of 1781, shortly after being elected to the British Academy of Art as a landscape painter, Alsatian-born artist Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg was hired by the wealthy young aesthete William Beckford to prepare a private birthday ...
McCalman, Iain, Iain McCalman
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On the Origins and Legacies of Really Existing Capitalism: In Conversation with Kari Polanyi Levitt
Development and Change, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 542-572, March 2019.
Andrew M. Fischer
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A Tour through Sicily and Malta
Vorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Leipzig, bey Johann Friedrich ...
Brydone, Patrick
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Ludovico Mazzolino alla prova del mercato d’arte, novecentesco e non solo
The main subject of the present study is the commercial fortune of the paintings by Ludovico Mazzolino with particular attention towards the period embracing 19th and 20th centuries.
Andrei Bliznukov
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The Consummate Collector : William Beckford\u27s Letters to His Bookseller
By William Beckford. Edited with introduction and notes by Robert J. Gemmett, College at Brockport Faculty emeritus. This collection of over 350 letters written by William Beckford to his bookseller George Clarke over the years 1830 to 1834, gives a ...
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This paper is based on an illustrated lecture given as The Beckford Society's Seventeenth Annual Lecture, delivered on Thursday 22 November 2012 at the Travellers Club, 106 Pall Mall, London SW1. It examines the connections between two generations of the
Dakers, Caroline
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Post‐War Sociology of Religion 1945–2024 in Britain and America
Religious Studies Review, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 69-75, March 2024.
Bryan S. Turner
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Lisboa nos anos de 1778 segundo o Diário de William Beckford [PDF]
UID/PAM/00417/2019William Beckford (1760-1844) é uma personalidade fascinante da cultura inglesa na transição do século XVIII para o século XIX, celebrizado pelo modo como exibia a sua imensa riqueza, pelo escândalo provocado pela sua denunciada ...
Silva, Raquel Henriques da
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