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Vathek & the escape from time : bicentenary revaluations / edited by Kenneth W. Graham.
- Title
- Vathek & the escape from time : bicentenary revaluations / edited by Kenneth W. Graham.
- Publication
- New York, NY : AMS Press, c1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PQ1957.B29 V338 1990x | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Graham, Kenneth W. (Kenneth Wayne)
- Description
- xiv, 277 p., [2] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 15
- Uniform Title
- AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 15.
- Alternative Title
- Vathek and the escape from time.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [247]-268.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The escape from time and the movement underground / Temple J. Maynard -- The influence of landscape and architecture on the composition of Vathek / Brian Fothergill -- Orientalism, fantasy, and Vathek / J.E. Svilpis -- Vathek--megalomaniac Caliph or pundit of the avant-garde? / Michel Baridon -- Beckford treasures rediscovered: mystic glow of Persian sufism in Vathek / Devendra P. Varma -- Vathek: the inversion of romance / Randall Craig -- The enlightened occultist: Beckford's presence in Vathek / R.B. Gill -- Vathek, heaven and hell / Peter Hyland -- The gothic Vathek: the problem of genre resolved / Frederick S. Frank -- Vathek and decadence / Jürgen Klein -- "Inconnue dans les annales de la terre": Beckford's Benign and demonic influence on Poe / Kenneth W. Graham -- Vathek in Portugal / M.L. Bettencourt Pires -- A checklisk of Vathek criticism / Frederick S. Frank.
- ISBN
- 0404635156
- LCCN
- ^^^89006471^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library