Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Vathek an Arabian tale Memoir By William North The Amber Witch Edited by W Meinhold Translated from the German by E A Friedl nder written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beckford of Fonthill written by Brian Fothergill and published by Nonsuch Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beckford of Fonthill

Download or read book A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Guy Chapman and published by London : Constable. This book was released on 1930 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envious of each other's individual traits and circumstances, two friends meet for a "fight"--a shouting match of interesting words such as lummox, kinkajou, and balderdash.

Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Lewis Melville and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Lewis Saul Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents written by William Beckford and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Vathek and Other Stories written by Malcolm Jack and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The journal of William Beckford in Portugal and Spain 1787 1788 written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Beckford written by Perry Gauci and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book William Beckford written by Timothy Mowl and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book William Beckford written by Timothy Mowl and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book William Beckford written by Robert J. Gemmett and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Beckford 1760 1844 written by Derek E. Ostergard and published by Bard Center. This book was released on 2001 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Cyrus Redding and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Gothic Bibliography Unabridged written by Montague Summers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and unique work about Gothic fiction, by"the major anthologist of supernatural and Gothic fiction", Montague Summers.

Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Lewis Saul Benjamin and published by London, W. Heinemann. This book was released on 1910 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: