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Chronicles the life of an 18th century Lord Mayor of London, who was born and raised in the British colony of Jamaica, while also offering a riveting look at how the expanding British empire challenged existing political, social, and cultural norms.
Derek E. Ostergard,Philip Hewat-Jaboor,Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,Dulwich Picture Gallery
Author : Derek E. Ostergard,Philip Hewat-Jaboor,Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,Dulwich Picture Gallery Publisher : Bard Center Page : 448 pages File Size : 43,7 Mb Release : 2001 Category : Art ISBN : 0300090684
William Beckford, 1760-1844 by Derek E. Ostergard,Philip Hewat-Jaboor,Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,Dulwich Picture Gallery Pdf
British collector William Beckford helped to define many of the parameters of 19th-century collecting. This text describes his flamboyant personality & unconventional life & discusses fine works of art that were once part of his legendary collection.
William Beckford had two lives: one real and sensational, the other an elegant forgery he invented in retirement after the young Disraeli mischievously sent him a homoerotic epic based loosely on Beckford's own career. Biographers have been bemused by Beckford's faked letters and dream encounters with celebrities, but his real life was far more significant: he is the pivotal Romantic between Horace Walpole and Byron. Beckford was reared in exotic isolation in a Palladian palace where he grew up obsessed with dark grottoes, towers and images of the living dead. Rushed into marriage by an apprehensive mother, he indulged his actual passions (both legal and paedophile) until a Tory administration staged a sex scandal that exiled him. In his absence his novel, Vathek was treacherously pirated. Returned to England, Beckford flung his wealth into the creation of Fonthill Abbey, which, by its shadowy vistas and glamorous camp furnishings, paved the way for the wildest excesses of Victorian taste.
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by William Beckford Pdf
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents" by William Beckford. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Vathek and Other Stories by Malcolm Jack,William Beckford Pdf
Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose.
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Passau, language: English, abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt den Gothic Novel "Vathek" von William Beckford und analysiert die ambivalenten Moralvorstellungen in dem Roman, die insbesondere durch den Erzähler geprägt werden. Dabei wird der Text auf seine moralphilosophische Positionierung untersucht und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass es sich bei Beckfords Erzählung um eine ausgeklügelte "Auto-Satire" handelt. Die Interpretation wird in umfassendere Kontexte (Zeitalter der Aufklärung und Gattungsgeschichte der Gothic Novel) eingebettet.
William Beckford’s "Vathek" and Edward W. Said’s Concept of Orientalism by Anonim Pdf
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, RWTH Aachen University (Anglistik), course: HS Gothic Novel, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this present survey is to investigate features of Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism in William Beckford’s “Vathek”. It intends to examine how far Beckford’s novel reflects the standardization and cultural stereotyping that have helped to intensify the grasp of the imaginative demonology of the mysterious East (Said, 2003:26). Therefore I will at first present an introduction of Said’s concept of Orientalism, in order to be able to distinguish features of Orientalism in Beckford’s novel in the main body of my term paper. The main focus will be on: Violence and evilness, homoeroticism, sensuality and religion. The most important sources for my term paper are evidently Edward Said’s book “Orientalism”, which has been first published in 1978, and William Beckford’s novel “Vathek”(1786), which was originally written in French and translated into English by Reverent Samuel Henley (Khrisat, 2001: 192). Even though many scholars seem to have studied Said’s notion of Orientalism in the scope of literary works, like for example Eric Meyer and Bernard Lewis, there seem to exist few researches which are merely based on Orientalism in “Vathek”. However, the most important resource for this paper is Muna Al-Alwana’s survey about Orientalism in Beckford’s novel, next to Jeffrey Cass’s study, who has investigated “Vathek” in respect to Orientalism and Homoeroticism. The most important resource for this paper is Muna Al-Alwana’s survey.
William Beckford had two lives: one real and sensational, the other an elegant forgery he invented in retirement after the young Disraeli mischievously sent him a homoerotic epic based loosely on Beckford's own career. Biographers have been bemused by Beckford's faked letters and dream encounters with celebrities, but his real life was far more significant: he is the pivotal Romantic between Horace Walpole and Byron. Beckford was reared in exotic isolation in a Palladian palace where he grew up obsessed with dark grottoes, towers and images of the living dead. Rushed into marriage by an apprehensive mother, he indulged his actual passions (both legal and paedophile) until a Tory administration staged a sex scandal that exiled him. In his absence his novel, Vathek was treacherously pirated. Returned to England, Beckford flung his wealth into the creation of Fonthill Abbey, which, by its shadowy vistas and glamorous camp furnishings, paved the way for the wildest excesses of Victorian taste.
The Journal of William Beckford in Portugal & Spain, 1787-1788 by William Beckford Pdf
Known as the "Fool of Fonthill" for his eccentricity, William Beckford was ostracized by polite society after being accused of having an improper relationship with a young boy, and soon after was forced to flee England. In early 1787 he arrived in Lisbon, the first stop on a journey to his plantations in Jamaica, but due to terrible sea-sickness, he decided to stay. However, despite his popularity with the Portuguese nobility, the scandal that had forced him to leave England again forced him to move on to Spain in November 1787. Here, in true Beckford style, he became entangled with an older married woman, a young married girl, and a twelve-year-old boy all at the same time. The account of his Iberian sojourn is at times scathing but often witty, as Beckford in turns bemoans his lot and then rhapsodizes about a new love affair. "The Journal of William Beckford" provides a fascinating and entertaining account of Beckford's time in Portugal and Spain, while offering a tantalizing glimpse into the life of someone famous for his hedonistic and unconventional behavior.