Internet Resources: Dick Claésson's William Beckford Website--BECKFORDIANA
ALAMOUDI, Carmen. "Un Sourire dechire: L'Ironie dans le Vathek de Beckford." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 8:3 (1996): 401-[data [A lacerating smile: Irony in Beckford's Vathek]
ALEXANDER, Boyd. "William Beckford: Man of Taste." 0281
________. "The Decay of Beckford's Genius" In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. 0282
________. "William Beckford of Fonthill." 0283
________. England's Wealthiest Son: A Study of William Beckford. 0284
ARMOUR, Richard W. "The Caliph of Fonthill." 0286
BABB, James T. "William Beckford of Fonthill." 0203
BARIDON, Michel. "La Modernité de Beckford." 0204
________. "Vathek--Megalomaniac Caliph or Pundit of the Avant Garde?" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0205
BELL, C. F. "William Beckford." 0288
BELLOC, Hilaire. "On Vathek" In A Conversation with an Angel and Other Essays. 0289
BENRAHHAL-SERGHINI, El-Habib. "The Road to Istakhar: A Critical Study of the Text and Context of William Beckford's ' Vathek ' and the ' Episodes,' 1760-1844." Dissertation Abstracts International 55:9 (1995): 2839A (Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen). Focuses on the "ideology of power" in Vathek and the Episodes. Also examines 'the affiliations that Vathek and the Episodes may have with the Gothic tradition." Beckford emphasizes the relationship between the creative imagination and the ideology of power in these works.
BLEILER, E. F. "Introduction" to Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre. 0290
BLOOM, Margaret. "William Beckford's Vathek." 0291
BORGES, Jorge Luis. "About William Beckford's Vathek" In Other Inquisitions 1937-1952. 0292
BROCKMAN, Harold A. N. The Caliph of Fonthill. 0293
BRUCE, Donald. “William Beckford as Writer and Collector.” Contemporary Review 280: 1635 (Apr. 2002): 227-233. Describes "William Beckford: An Eye for the Magnificent," an exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery, England. “Although in Vathek, William Beckford wrote a Gothic romance as reckless and immoderate as himself, his life of great prodigality would merit attention even if he had never written a word.”
BRULÉ, A. "Un Visite à Fonthill en 1792." 0294
BRUNEAU, Jean. "Madame de Genlis, William Beckford et Vathek." 0295
BURGIO, Tizinia. William Beckford e il Mondo Arabo-Islamico. Mazzara del Vallo, Italia: Liceo Ginnasio Gian Giacomo Adria, 1997. [William Beckford and the Arab-Islamic world]
CANNON, Peter. "The Influence of Vathek on H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" In H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism. 0296
CARNERO, Guillermo. "William Beckford (1760-1844) o el erotismo de fina stampa." 0297
CARTER, John. "Two Beckford Collections." 0298
________. "Beckford and Vathek: God and Sterotype." 0299
CARTER. Lin. Introduction to The History of the Caliph Vathek, Including "The Episodes of Vathek." 0300
CHADOURNE, Marc. "L'Incroyable William Beckford." 0301
________. "Eblis, ou l'enfer de William Beckford. L'Homme et l'oeuvre." 0302
CHAPMAN, Guy. Introduction to Vathek, with the Episodes of Vathek. 0303
________. The Nonesuch Vathek. 0304
________. & John HODGKIN. A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill. 0305
________. Beckford. 0306
CHATAL, Laurent. "Enlightening the ' Powers of Darkness ': Beckford's avant-gardiste Nature Laboratory." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 346 (1996): 440-442.
CLAÉSSON, Dick.William Beckford av Fonthill, Wilts., 1760-1844. En forskningsöversikt, Litteraturvetenskapliga institu-tionen. Göteborgs, Sweden: Göteborgs universitet, Meddelanden nr 17, 1995. An introductory bibliographical essay,discussing Beckford research listing and discussing some 80 plus books and articles on Beckford and introducing the author to a Swedish audience. Divided in two parts: 1) a life, and 2) a survey of research. Intended as an introduction to Beckfordiana.
CLAÉSSON, Dick. The Transport of Pleasure. MS. Beckford d.10 (Fonthill Foreshadowed); utgiven och kommenterad av Dick Claésson, Göteborg, Sweden: Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, Meddelanden nr 21, Göteborg 1996. An edition of The Transport of Pleasure (MS. Beckford d.10), and Hylas (MS Beckford d.9), never before published; with commentary, notes and introduction in Swedish, but texts of manuscripts in original English. Contains also a two-page summary in English of the introduction. Both texts were written in early youth, circa 1777-78, and are important specimens of Beckford's style and favourite subject matter. The introduction purports to perform a different reading of the The Transport of Pleasure than has hitherto been performed; a reading/interpretation that focuses on the text as fiction and not as a biographical piece of evidence.
CLAÉSSON, Dick."A brief note on Beckford's ' Queen of Delusions,' " Notes & Queries 242:2 (June 1997): 214.
CLAÉSSON, Dick. "A survey of William Beckford's unpublished romance L'Esplendente." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 358 (1997): 189-201.
CLAÉSSON, Dick. "At a Crossroads: Assessing and Redefining the Beckford agenda." Beckford Journal (Spring 1998): 22-33.
CLAÉSSON, Dick. "The Scenario of Letters: Beckford & the Epistolary Narrative." Orbis Litterarum 54 (1998): 161-173.
CLARKE, Stephen. "Abbeys Real and Imagined: Northanger, Fonthill, and Aspects of the Gothic Revival." Persuasions 20 (1998): 93-[data
CONANT, Martha Pike. [data] In The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century. 0307
COPE, Kevin L. "Moral Travel and the Pursuit of Nothing; Vathek and Siris as Philosophical Monologue," 0206
________. "William Beckford's Vathek as Philosophical Monologue." 0207
CRAIG, Randall. "Beckford's Inversion of Romance in Vathek." 0208
DE GRAAF, D. A. "Potgieter en Vathek." 0308
DE MEESTER, Marie E. "Vathek and its Influence" In Oriental Influences in the English Literature of the Nineteenth Century. 0309
DIDIER, Beatrice."L'Exotisme et la mise en question du système familial et moral dans le roman à la fin du XVIIIe siècle: Beckford, Sade, Potocki" In Transactions of the Fourth International Congress on the Enlightenment. 0310
DUPERRAY, Max. "Héros gothique et figure grotesque: Beckford et son Calife." In Le Roman noir anglais dit gothique." Ed. Max Duperray. Paris: ellipses, 2000: 139-145. [Gothic heroes and grotesque figures: Beckford and his caliph]. Throughout Vathek, Beckford excels in the presentation of "un imaginaire de la perversion" [perverse imagination] and "un plaisir dans le démoniaque" [a pleasure in the demoniac]. Both the author and the work resemble decadents of the late nineteenth century such as Aubrey Beardsley and his novel Under the Hill.
FAIRCLOUGH, Peter & Mario PRAZ. Introduction to Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, Frankenstein. 0311
FARRELL, John T. "A Reinterpretation of the Major Literary Works of William Beckford." 0209
FOLSOM, James K. "Beckford's Vathek and the Tradition of Oriental Satire." 0313
FOTHERGILL, Brian. "William Beckford, Prince of Amateurs." 0314
________. "The Influence of Landscape and Architecture on the Composition of Vathek" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0210
________. Beckford of Fontlhill. 0314A
FRANK, Frederick S. "William Beckford's Vathek: An Arabian Tale." In Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature. 0211
________. "The Gothic Vathek: The Problem of Genre Resolved" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0212
________. "A Checklist of Vathek Criticism" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0213
FRANKLIN, Michael. "Beckford, William (1760-1844)" In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998: 20-23.
FREEMAN, Arthur. "William Beckford's Modern Novel Writing, 1795-6: Two Issues, 'Three States. '" Book Collector 41:1 (1992): 69-73.
GARBER, Frederick. "Beckford, Delacroix, and Byronic Orientalism." 0315
GARNETT, Richard. "Beckford's Vathek" In Essays of an Ex-Librarian. 0316
GARRETT, John. "Ending in Infinity: William Beckford's Arabian Tale." 0214
________. "Beckford's Amorality: Deconstructing the House of Faith." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 346 (1996): 455-458.
GEMMETT, Robert James. "William Beckford and the Picturesque: A Study of Fonthill." 0317
________. "An Annotated Checklist of the Works of William Beckford." 0318
________. "William Beckford: Bibliographical Addenda." 0319
________. "The Caliph Vathek from England and the Continent to America." 0320
________. "The Critical Reception of William Beckford's Fonthill." 0321
________. Introduction to Vathek. 0322
________. William Beckford. 0323
GIDDEY, Ernest. Introduction to Vathek and its Episodes. 0324
________. "La Vision créatrice de Vathek de Beckford." Lausaunne University Faculté des Lettres Publication 18 (1966): 43-56.
________. "Beckford and Byron." 0325
GIDE, Andre, Lucien LAVAULT, Lewis MELVILLE, Valery LARBAUD. "Le Dossier Vathek." 0326
GIFFORD, Stephanie. "Genesis of a Caliph." 0215
GILL, R. B. "The Enlightened Occultist: Beckford's Presence" In Vathek" Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0216
GOTTLIEB, Howard B. William Beckford of Fonthill: Writer, Traveller, Collector, Caliph, 1760-1844. A Brief Narrative and Catalogue of an Exhibition to Mark the Two Hundredth Anniversary of Beckford's Birth. 0327
GRAHAM, Kenneth W. "Beckford's Vathek: A Study in Ironic Dissonance." 0328
________. "Who Revised the 1823 Vathek?" 0329
________. "Beckford's Adaptation of the Oriental Tale in Vathek." 0330
________. "Vathek in English and French." 0331
________. "Implications of the Grotesque: Beckford's Vathek and the Boundaries of Fictional Reality." 0332
________." ' Inconnue dans les Annales de la Terre ' : Beckford's Benign and Demonic Influence on Poe" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0217
________. Ed. "Introduction" to Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0218
________. "Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek: The Role of the Suppressed ' Story of Alasi and Firouz. ' " East-Central Intelligencer, n.s. 14:3 (2000): 10-12.
________. Ed. Introduction to Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2001.
GRAY, Jennie. Horace Walpole and William Beckford: Pioneers of the Gothic Revival. Chislehurst, UK: The Gothic Society; Monograph Series 1, 1994.
GREEN, Andrew J. "Essays in Miniature: Vathek." 0333
GRIGORESCU, Dan. Ed. Batrinul Baron Englez: Vathek." 0219
GRIMM, Reinhold. "Vathek in Deutschland: Zwei zwischenfälle ohne folgen?" 0334
GRIMSDITCH, Herbert B. Introduction to Vathek. 0335
GUERRA, Oliva. "Sintra e Lord Beckford." 0336
HAGGERTY, George E. "Literature and Homosexuality in the Late Eighteenth Century: Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis." In Homosexual Themes in Literary Studies, Eds. Wayne R. Dynes, Stephen Donaldson. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992: 167-178. Essay reprinted from Studies in the Novel, 18 (1986): 341-352. 0182
HEINEMANN, Elke. Babylonische Spiele: William Beckford und das Erwachen der Moderne Imagination. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2000. [Babylonian Games: William Beckford and the Awakening of the Modern Imagination]
HENDERSON, Philip. Introduction to Vathek In Three Eighteenth Century Novels. 0337
HEPPENSTALL, Rayner. "The Palace of Subterranean Fire" In The Fourfold Tradition, Notes on French and English Literatures, With Some Ethnnological and Historical Asides. 0338
HERRICK, George H. "Fabulous Fonthill." 0339
HODGKIN, John. "The Nonesuch Vathek." 0340
HOLLINGSWORTH, Keith. "Vathek and the ' Ode to a Nightingale.' " 0341
HUNTER, A. O. "Le Vathek de William Beckford." 0342
HUSSAIN, Imdad. "Beckford, Wainewright, De Quincey, and Oriental Exoticism." 0343
HYLAND, Peter. "Vathek, Heaven and Hell" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0220
JACK, Malcolm. "William Beckford; Traveler, Artist, Escapist." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1823-1824.
________. Introduction to Vathek and Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1994: [data
________. "William Beckford: The Poor Arabian Storyteller." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 346 (1996: 451-453.
JANTZEN, Hermann. "Source of ' The Hall of Eblis ' by B. Cornwall.'" 0345
JEAN-AUBRY, G. "Autour de Vathek de William Beckford." 0346
JOHNSON, H. Brimley. Introduction to Vathek. 0347
KLEIN, Jürgen. "Vathek and Decadence" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0221
KNIPP, Charles C. "Types of Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England." 0348
KNOX-SHAW, P.H. "The West Indian Vathek." Essays in Criticism. 43:4 (1993): 284-307.
KNOX-SHAW, Peter. "Vathek and the Seven Fountains, by Sir William Jones." Notes & Queries. 42 (March, 1995): 75-76.
LACROIX, Jean. "William Beckford, voyageur-voyeur: La Realite et son ' double '; Scritti in memoria di Lynn Salkin Sbiroli" In Il Senso del nonsenso, Eds. Monique Streiff Moretti, Mireille Revol Cappelletti. Naples: Edizioni Scientifche Italiane, 1994: 73-92. On the voyeurism of the traveler in Vathek. [William Beckford, voyager-voyeur: The reality of his double
LANE-POOLE, Stanley. "The Author of Vathek." 0349
LANGE, Bernd-Peter. "Orientierungsarbeit: Radikale Fantasie in William Beckfords Vathek." 0222
LEES-MILNE, James. William Beckford. 0350
LE YAOUANC, Collette. Le Thème Sexuel dans Vathek." 0223
LIU, Alan. "Toward a Theory of Common Sense: Beckford's Vathek and Johnson's Rasselas." 0224
LOCKHART, John Gibson. Introduction to Vathek. 0351
LONSDALE, Roger. Introduction toVathek. 0352
MAGNIER, Mireille. "Vathek Hommage à Voltaire ou Avatar de Faust?" 0225
________. "Rasselas and Vathek" In Bicentenary Essays on Rasselas. 0354
________. "A Monument to the Author of Vathek." 0355
MANZALAOUI, Mahmoud. "Pseudo-Orientalism in Transition: The Age of Vathek" In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844. Bicentenary Essays. 356
MARLOW, Harriet. "Beckford's Vathek, ' Londres 1791.' " 0357
MAY, Marcel. La Jeunesse de William Beckford et la genèse de son ' Vathek.' 0359
MAYNARD, Temple J. "The Landscape of Vathek." 0360
________. "Depictions of Persepolis and William Beckford's Istakar." Eighteenth Century Life 3 (1977) : 119-122.
________. "Eschewing Present Pleasure for an Eternity of Bliss: The Irreligious Motivation of Beckford's Protatonists in Vathek." 0226
________. "The Escape from Time and the Movement Underground" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0227
MAYOUX, Jean-Jacques. "La Damnation de Beckford." 0361
MELVILLE, Lewis. Introduction to The Episodes of Vathek. 0362
MENASCÉ, Esther. "Di Quà e di la della Manica: Vathek Favole e Fantasmi." 0228
MILLINGTON, Jon. The Beckford Society Annual Lectures, 1996-1999. Bristol: Beckford Society, 2000.
MOCHI, Giovanna. "L'Inferno rassicurante di Vathek." 0363
MORE, Paul Elmer. "William Beckford" In The Drift of Romanticism. 0364
MOURET, Francois J. "Le Vathek de William Beckford et le ' Voyage d'Urien ' d'André Gide." 0365
MOUSSA-MAHMOUD, Fatma. "Beckford, Vathek, and the Oriental Tale" In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844. Bicentenary Essays. 0353
________. Ed. William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844. Bicentenary Essays. {GGI: 0353
________. "A Monument of the Author of Vathek." Études Anglaises 15 (1962): 138-147.
________. "Oriental in Picaresque: A Chapter in the History of the Oriental Tale in England" In Oriental Tales and Influences in 19th Century. Cairo: Cairo Studies in English, 1961-62: 145-188.
OLIVER, John W. The Life of William Beckford. 0366
PARREAUX, André. "Beckford and Byron." 0367
________. "Un Vathek ignoré." 0368
________. "Beckford's Vathek, ' Londres 1791.' " 0369
________. "Beckford en Italie: Rêve et voyage en XVIIIe siècle." 0370
________. William Beckford auteur de ' Vathek ' (1760-1844): Étude de la creation littéraire. 0371
________. "The Caliph and the Swinish Multitude" In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. 0372
________. "Beckford: Bibliographie selective et critique." 0373
PIRES, Maria Laura Bettencourt. "Vathek and Portugal" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0229
POTKAY, Adam. "Beckford's Heaven of Boys." Raritan 13 (Summer 1993): 73-86.
PRAZ, Mario. "Il Califfo Beckford" In Studi e Svaghi Inglesi. 0374
________. "Swift, Johnson, Beckford: Tre Inglesi Pazzi." 0375
PRITCHETT, V. S. "Vile Bodies." 0230
PRYCE-JONES, Alan. "William Beckford, Dilettante." 0376
REDMAN, Ben Ray. Introduction to Vathek. 0377
REVAUGER, Marie-Cécile. "L'Unique et le multiple dans le Vathek de William Beckford: Folie du mimétisme." 0231
RIEGER, James H. " 'Au pied de la lettre ': Stylistic Uncertainty in Vathek." 0378
ROBERTS, Adam & Eric ROBERTSON. "The Giour's Sabre: A Reading of Beckford's Vathek." Studies in Romanticism 35:2 (1996): 199-212.
SENA, John F. "Drawing from Plots: The Landscapes of Vathek and the Paintings of Alexander Cozens." 0379
SHAFFER, E. S. "Milton's Hell: William Beckford's Place in the Graphic and the Literary Tradition" In Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism, Ed. Anthony Harding. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1994: 65-83.
SITWELL, Sacherverell. Beckford and Beckfordism. 0380
SOLOMON, Stanley J. "Subverting Propriety as a Pattern in Three Eighteenth Century Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, and Fanny Hill." 0381
STABLEFORD, Brian. "Beckford, William" In St. James Guide to Horror, Gothic, & Ghost Writers, Ed. David Pringle. Detroit, New York, Toronto, London: St. James Press, 1998: 39-40.
SUMMERS, Montague. "The Abbot of Fonthill." 0232
SVILPIS, J. E. "Orientalism, Fantasy, and Vathek" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0233
THOMPSON, Karl F. "Henley's Share in Beckford's Vathek." 0382
________. "Beckford, Byron, and Henley." 0383
TROTT, Nicola, Ed. Vathek; An Arabian Tale In Gothic Novels: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.
UNSIGNED. "Beckford the Caliph: A Traveller of Two Worlds, Passion and Fantasy." 0287
________. "William Beckford and Islam." 0388
________. "Gothic Survival." Building Design, 22 February 2002: 17. William Beckford’s "flamboyant abbey" is the main feature of an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The large scenes of Fonthill painted by Turner "prove wonderfully evocative."
VARMA, Devendra P. "William Beckford." 0234
________. "Beckford Treasuries Rediscovered: Mystic Glow of Sufism in Vathek" In Vathek & the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. 0235
________. "Introduction" to The Transient Gleam: A Bouquet of Beckford's Poesy 0236
VERONA, Elisabetta. "Vathek di William Beckford: un analisi," Thesis, Instituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne, Milan, 1991. [William Beckford's Vathek: An analysis]
VOLLER, Jack. "Beckford, William" In Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s, Ed. Laura Dabundo. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992: 30-31.
________. "William Beckford." In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, Eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002: 53-59.
WAGENKNECHT, Edward. "Vathek and the Oriental Tale" In Cavalcade of the English Novel. 0385
WHIBLY, Charles. "The Caliph of Fonthill" In The Pageantry of Life. 0387
WILSON, Edmund. "Firbank and Beckford." 0237
WOODWARD, Christopher. "William Beckford and Fonthill Splendors. Early works by Soane and Goodridge." Apollo (New Series) 148, 432 (February 1998): 31-40.
ZEIDLER, Karl. "Beckford, Hope und Morier als vertreter des orientalischen romans." 0389