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Item Details
| Title:
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WILLIAM BECKFORD
AN ENGLISH FIDALGO |
| By: |
Malcolm Jack |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£74.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0404635202 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780404635206 |
| Publisher: |
AMS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 April, 1992 |
| Series: |
AMS Studies in the Eighteenth-Century v. 20 |
| Pages: |
170 |
| Description: |
A biography of William Beckford, the 18th-century linguist, musician, orientalist and art connoisseur who seemed destined for the highest reaches of English political life but finished up as a social outcast. The author considers the influence of Beckford's Portuguese connection. |
| Synopsis: |
Beckford, best remembered for the Gothic novel "Vathek", has always been a subject of fascination. A man of dazzling virtuosity - as story teller, linguist, musician, orientalist, art connoisseur - and of immense wealth, Beckford seemed destined for the highest reaches of English political life. In fact, he became a social outcast and his contributions were to letters and the revival of Gothic architecture on a grand scale. In this biographical sketch, Malcolm Jack concentrates on the importance of Beckford's Portuguese connection in settling his fate. Beckford came to Portugal when he was still open to new influences and the residence proved central to his imaginative development as an artist and to his life as an outcast grandee. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
AMS Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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