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His parents were William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton. He was Member of Parliament for Wells from 1784 to 1790, for Hindon from 1790 to 1795 and 1806 to 1820. He is remembered as the author of the Gothic novel Vathek (1786), the builder of the remarkable lost Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower ("Beckford's Tower"), Bath, and especially for his art collection.
19 de abr. de 2022 · With the incredible news that William Beckford’s long-lost grotto tunnel is found, Bath Preservation Trust now plans to restore historic feature. The paddocks surrounding a famous Bath landmark are being restored to enable visitors to experience a glimpse of William Beckford’s gardens as they were presented almost 200 years ago – and as ...
Biografía de William Beckford. Escritor, crítico y diletante inglés, William Beckford fue un rico heredero cuya inmensa fortuna le permitió dedicarse al coleccionismo de arte, la arquitectura y la literatura. De vida algo disoluta -tuvo varias acusaciones por corruptor-, son especialmente conocidos sus ensayos de viaje por Europa y también ...
Beckford William, Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek, Broadview Literary texts, Canada, 2001. Farone Mario, “Io ti racconterò una storia, in cui, se Dio vuole, sarà la salvezza: tra Geni, Califfi e Inferni, Il Vathek di William Beckford come Narratore Orientale, Trame di letteratura comparata, Cassino, 2000.
17 de feb. de 2011 · William Beckford was born in Jamaica, the son of a leading sugar plantation owner who, at his death in 1735, was the wealthiest and most powerful man on the island. William Beckford's own property ...
Memorias biográficas de pintores extraordinarios, de William Beckford. Considerado como uno de los maestros espirituales de Lord Byron, William Beckford fue un excéntrico de veleidades dandísticas que a los diecisiete años decidió que su vida nunca respondería a lo esperable de un joven aristócrata en la Inglaterra georgiana.
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.
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