William Beckford's 'Vathek'

William Beckford's 'Vathek'
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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Total Pages : 25
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ISBN-10 : 9783640947997
ISBN-13 : 3640947991
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis William Beckford's 'Vathek' by : Marvin Hanisch

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Passau, language: English, abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt den Gothic Novel "Vathek" von William Beckford und analysiert die ambivalenten Moralvorstellungen in dem Roman, die insbesondere durch den Erzähler geprägt werden. Dabei wird der Text auf seine moralphilosophische Positionierung untersucht und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass es sich bei Beckfords Erzählung um eine ausgeklügelte "Auto-Satire" handelt. Die Interpretation wird in umfassendere Kontexte (Zeitalter der Aufklärung und Gattungsgeschichte der Gothic Novel) eingebettet.

William Beckford

William Beckford
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 283
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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.

William Beckford's 'Vathek': Moral, Immoral or Ironic?

William Beckford's 'Vathek': Moral, Immoral or Ironic?
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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Total Pages : 20
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ISBN-10 : 9783640948123
ISBN-13 : 3640948122
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis William Beckford's 'Vathek': Moral, Immoral or Ironic? by : Marvin Hanisch

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Passau, language: English, abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt den Gothic Novel "Vathek" von William Beckford und analysiert die ambivalenten Moralvorstellungen in dem Roman, die insbesondere durch den Erzähler geprägt werden. Dabei wird der Text auf seine moralphilosophische Positionierung untersucht und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass es sich bei Beckfords Erzählung um eine ausgeklügelte "Auto-Satire" handelt. Die Interpretation wird in umfassendere Kontexte (Zeitalter der Aufklärung und Gattungsgeschichte der Gothic Novel) eingebettet.

The History of Caliph Vathek

The History of Caliph Vathek
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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages : 98
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1542558778
ISBN-13 : 9781542558778
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The History of Caliph Vathek by : William Beckford

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William Beckford

William Beckford
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105019787618
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis William Beckford by : John Tinker

The Critical Perspective

The Critical Perspective
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Publisher : Chelsea House
Total Pages : 648
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ISBN-10 : 0877547904
ISBN-13 : 9780877547907
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Critical Perspective by : Harold Bloom

Radical Orientalism

Radical Orientalism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9781107110328
ISBN-13 : 1107110327
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Radical Orientalism by : Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud

This book explores the relationship between ideas of the East and the struggle for democratic rights in the Romantic period.