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Author | : William Beckford |
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Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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As a child, Mozart reputedly taught him five-finger exercises on the piano, Alexander Cozens, self-styled bastard of Peter the Great, taught him to draw. The remainder of his education was completed under the baleful eye of a personal tutor, and in his father's well stocked library.
Author | : Chloe Chard |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719048050 |
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This work examines the forms of language that map out Italy as an imaginative topography of pleasure within British and French travel writing, over the period 1600 to 1830. It considers the tour with reference to strategies of description and themes.
Author | : Edward Chaney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317973666 |
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The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. Although traditionally associated with the eighteenth century, when wealthy Englishmen would complete their education on the continent, the Grand Tour is here investigated in a wider context, from the decline of the Roman Empire to recent times. Authors from Chaucer to Erasmus came to mock the custom but even the Reformation did not stop the urge to travel. From the mid-sixteenth century, northern Europeans justified travel to the south in terms of education. The English had previously travelled to Italy to study the classics; now they travelled to learn Italian and study medicine, diplomacy, dancing, riding, fencing, and, eventually, art and architecture. Famous men, and an increasing proportion of women, all contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. Documenting the lives and travels of these personalities, Professor Chaney's remarkable book provides a complete picture of one of the most fascinating phenomena in the history of western civilisation.
Author | : Timothy Mowl |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0571300480 |
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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.
Author | : William Beckford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2017-07-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781546982609 |
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"Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents" is a series of letters composed by William Beckford as a result of a Grand Tour on the continent in 1780-81. From brief daily notes kept during this tour, Beckford composed, not simply a travel journal, but a composition which gave occasional glimpses into the inner thoughts and dreams of the author. Strangely, Beckford himself suppressed the book on its release, destroying almost 500 copies of the original print. A much modified and toned down version was finally released in 1834 incorporated in Italy; with "Sketches of Spain and Portugal". Robert Gemmett's edition in contrast is an almost verbatim copy of the original edition of 1783, and provides a compelling early glimpse into the mind of a man who was to become universally known in later life as the 'Fool of Fonthill'.
Author | : Lewis Saul Benjamin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Beckford, William, 1759-1844 |
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Download The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Lewis Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : Thomas Philip Robinson 3rd (baron Grantham.) |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1136836373 |
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Author | : William Beckford |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2001-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781551112817 |
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William Beckford’s Vathek is a touchstone of eighteenth-century Orientalism and of the Gothic novel. Beckford’s later work, The Episodes of Vathek, shares Vathek’s irreverent and decadent style, and an edition that unites the two has long been overdue. The Broadview edition includes a newly discovered early version of the first episode, never before in print, that centres on male-male love, as well as the previously published version that was re-written by Beckford as a heterosexual narrative. Based on the 1823 edition—the last one edited by the author himself—the Broadview Edition also introduces The Episodes in the order Beckford planned, and incorporates his final corrections.