William Beckford : composing for Mozart / Timothy Mowl
1998, 1st edition. London : John Murray. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #412402
ISBN: 0719558298
Physical description; 324 pp., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; 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. Subjects; Beckford, William 1760-1844 Biography. Fonthill Abbey. Authors, English 18th century ; Biography. Romanticism.
Price: €18.95