William Beckford : composing for Mozart / Timothy Mowl.

Main entry:

Mowl, Tim.

Title & Author:

William Beckford : composing for Mozart / Timothy Mowl.

Publication:

London : J. Murray, 1998.

Description:

xii, 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) and index.
Introduction: The price of a Romantic sensibility -- To the formidable and inaccessible Vathek himself -- Aesthetic education and a second Emile -- The dangerous facility of a teenage author -- The sorrows of an English Goethe -- A paedophile as literary hero -- Italy, with castrati -- A soft but criminal delight -- No wife, no heir, and daughters lost -- Lisbon and a pilgrim for St Anthony -- Sintra and the flight from friends -- Madrid : the winter of reacceptance -- Beckford in transit, 1877-93 -- Portugal as a prelude to the Abbey -- 'Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine' : the Abbey -- A Gothic villain for a Gothic abbey -- 'I adore Buhl' : Beckford as collector and interior decorator -- Bath : the Tower, and Disraeli factor.

Summary:

"William Beckford had two lives. One was real and sensational, the other was the forgery of elegant lies and half-truths he invented in Bath retirement after the young Disraeli, in a spirit of sly mischief, had sent him a homoerotic epic based loosely on Beckford's own career. Biographers have been bemused by his faked letters and dream encounters with celebrities - the 'composing for Mozart' syndrome. His real life was infinitely more stimulating and significant; he stands as the pivotal Romantic between Horace Walpole's timidity and Lord Byron's blazing self-confidence."--Jacket

ISBN:

0719558298
9780719558290

Subject:

Beckford, William, 1760-1844.
Beckford, William 1760-1844
Beckford, William (Schriftsteller)
Authors, English 18th century Biography.
Authors, English 19th century Biography.
Romanticism England.
Écrivains anglais 18e siècle Biographies.
Écrivains anglais 19e siècle Biographies.
Romantisme Angleterre.
Authors, English
Romanticism
Biografie
England

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211084
Call No.: PR4092.M6 1998
Status: Available

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