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The Bard Graduate Center presented the first major exhibition on the life of William Beckford (1760–1844), the preeminent connoisseur of the late 18th and 19th centuries and one of the most influential collectors of the past 200 years of European and Asian art. The exhibition was on view at the BGC from October 2001 to early January 2002, after which it traveled to the prestigious Dulwich ...
William Beckford (baptized December 19, 1709, Jamaica, British West Indies—died June 21, 1770, London, England) was a gentleman merchant, member of Parliament, and lord mayor of London (1762–63, 1769–70) who was particularly noted as a pioneer of the radical movement. Beckford was reared in Jamaica, first arriving in England (to complete ...
William Beckford (1760-1844) was the author of the oriental tale Vathek and of several volumes of travel-writings, the builder of Fonthill Abbey, and an important collector of paintings, objets d'art and books. Fonthill has almost disappeared, most of his collections and his library have been dispersed, but his writings and this substantial ...
ويليام توماس بيكفورد ( بالإنجليزية: William Thomas Beckford ) (1 أكتوبر 1760 - 2 مايو 1844)، روائي ومهندس معماري وناقد وكاتب وسياسي بريطاني. كان ويليام مهووسًا بجمع الأعمال الفنية الزخرفية في بعض الأحيان ...
William Beckford (1760-1844) is essentially known for the singularity of his Vathek (1787-7) often presented in connection with the Gothic rage or the vogue for the oriental tale. However, Vathek was just one element in a larger « orientalist » ensemble. Unfortunately, the originality of Beckford’s position, despite being studied in 1960 by André Parreaux and in 1976 by Fatma Moussa ...
William Beckford's _Vathek_ is a site of a variety of textual ambiguities because it is located in a transitional period of English literary and social history. Its Gothic and Orientalist features demonstrate the ambivalent relationship between eighteenth-century narratives and its contemporaneous social reality, which characterizes the evolution of the novel as a genre as we know it today.
Vathek, Gothic novel by William Beckford, published in 1786. Considered a masterpiece of bizarre invention and sustained fantasy, Vathek was written in French in 1782 and was translated into English by the author’s friend the Rev. Samuel Henley, who published it anonymously, claiming in the preface
