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Author |
: Caroline Dakers |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2018-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787350458 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787350452 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fonthill Recovered by : Caroline Dakers
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.
Author |
: Timothy Mowl |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2013-02-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780571300488 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0571300480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Beckford by : Timothy Mowl
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 |
: Caroline Dakers |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2018-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787350465 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787350460 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fonthill Recovered by : Caroline Dakers
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.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 560 |
Release |
: 1910 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:32000000678351 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Author |
: Karen Junod |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2011-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191616600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191616605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing the Lives of Painters by : Karen Junod
Writing the Lives of Painters explores the development of artists' biographies in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. During this period artists gradually distanced themselves from artisans and began to be recognised for their imaginative and intellectual skills. The development of the art market and the burgeoning of an exhibition culture, as well as the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, all contributed to redefining the rank of artists in society. This social redefinition of the status of artists in Britain was shaped by a thriving print culture. Contemporary artists were discussed in a wide range of literary forms, including exhibition reviews, art-critical pamphlets, and journalistic gossip-columns. Biographical accounts of modern artists emerged in a dialogue with these other types of writing. This book is an account of a new literary genre, tracing its emergence in the cultural context of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It considers artistic biography as a malleable generic framework for investigation. Indeed, while the lives of painters in Britain did not completely abandon traditional tropes, the genre significantly widened its scope and created new individual and social narratives that reflected and accommodated the needs and desires of new reading audiences. Writing the Lives of Painters also argues that the proliferation of a myriad biographical forms mirrored the privileging of artistic originality and difference within an art world that had yet to generate a coherent 'British School' of painting. Finally, by focusing on the emergence of individual biographies of British artists, the book examines how and why the art historiographic model established by Georgio Vasari was gradually dismantled in the hands of British biographers during the Romantic period.
Author |
: Lewis Saul Benjamin |
Publisher |
: London, W. Heinemann |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 1910 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3575606 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Letters of William Beckford, of Fonthill ... by : Lewis Saul Benjamin
Author |
: Dale Townshend |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2019-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192584427 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192584421 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gothic Antiquity by : Dale Townshend
Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the relationship between literature and architecture is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains, to date, no monograph-length study of the intriguing and complex interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only the most cursory of treatments in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. In addressing this gap in contemporary scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic-architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of canonical and lesser-known texts and writers. Correspondingly, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were to a certain extent shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its 'survivalist' and 'revivalist' forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was always much more than a matter of style. Incarnating, for better or for worse, the memory of a vanished 'Gothic' age in the modern, enlightened present, Gothic architecture, be it ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation's past—a notable 'visionary' turn, as the antiquary John Pinkerton put it in 1788, in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated. The volume establishes a series of dialogues between Gothic literature, architectural history, and the antiquarian interest in the material remains of the Gothic past, and argues that these discrete yet intimately related approaches to vernacular antiquity are most fruitfully read in relation to one another.
Author |
: Ruth Bernard Yeazell |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2000-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300083890 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300083897 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harems of the Mind by : Ruth Bernard Yeazell
In a nuanced reading of Ingres's Bain turc and other works, Yeazell concludes that for some the appeal of the harem lay in the fantasy of eluding time and death."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: George Benjamin Woods |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1488 |
Release |
: 1916 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101071987539 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement by : George Benjamin Woods
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2022-07-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004484214 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004484213 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Oriental Prospects by :
A great deal of stimulating and valuable discussion (as well as some indignation and hot air) has been stimulated by Edward Said, whose provocative study of Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient appeared twenty years ago. This present book will, we believe, be recognized as a worthy addition to the many attempts that have since been made to sift the intrinsic and ingrained attitudes of West to East. The fifteen articles in Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the East cover literature from the Renaissance through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the modern period, some in pragmatic accounts of responses to and uses of experiences of the Orient and its cultural attitudes and artefacts, others contending more theoretically with issues that Edward Said has raised. Despite all the misunderstanding, prejudice and propaganda in the scholarly and literary depiction of the Orient still today as in the past, what emerges from this wide-range of articles is that no species of literary text or academic study can appear without risking the accusation of escapist exoticism or cultural and economic exploitation; and thus regrettably masking the essential and vital significance of the political and the real and imaginative trading between East and West.