Internet Resources: Dick Claésson's William Beckford Website

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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] [GGIII: 0779]. 

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CARTER, John. “Beckford and Vathek: God and Sterotype.” Library 18 (1963): 308-309. [GGI: 0299].

CARTER. Lin. “Introduction” (XXX). To The History of the Caliph Vathek, Including “The Episodes of Vathek.” New York: Ballantine, 1971. [GGI: 0300].

CHADOURNE, Marc. “L‘Incroyable William Beckford.” Revue de Paris 69 (1962): 43-58. [The Incredible William Beckford]. [GGI: 0301].

CHADOURNE, Marc. “Eblis, ou l’enfer de William Beckford. L’— Homme et l’oeuvre.” Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1967. [Eblis, or the Hell of William Beckford]. [GGI: 0302].

CHAPMAN, Guy. “Introduction” (XXX). To Vathek, with the Episodes of Vathek. Cambridge, UK: Constable, 1929. [GGI: 0303].

CHAPMAN, Guy. “The Nonesuch Vathek.” [London] Times Literary Supplement 3 January 1930: 12. [GGI: 0304].

CHAPMAN, Guy. Beckford. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. [GGI: 0306].

CHAPMAN, Guy and John HODGKIN. A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill. [GGI: 0305].

CHATEL, Laurent. “Enlightening the ‘Powers of Darkness’: Beckford’s avant-gardiste Nature Laboratory.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 346 (1996): 440-42. [GGIII: 0790]. 

CLAÉSSON, Dick.William Beckford av Fonthill, Wilts., 1760-1844. En forskningsöversikt, Litteraturaueens-kapliga institutionen. Göteborg, Sweden: Göteborgs universitet, Meddelanden nr 17, 1995. [Beckford of Fonthill]. [GGIII: 0792].

CLAÉSSON, Dick.”A brief note on Beckford’s ‘Queen of Delusions.’” Notes & Queries 44:242 (1997): 214. [GGIII: 0794]. 

CLAÉSSON, Dick. “At a Crossroads: Assessing and Redefining the Beckford Agenda.” Beckford Journal (1998): 22-33. [GGIII: 0796].

CLAÉSSON, Dick. “The Scenario of Letters: Beckford and the Epistolary Narrative.” Orbis Litterarum  54 (1998): 161-73. [GGIII: 0797].

CLAÉSSON, Dick. The Narratives of the Biographical Legend: The Early Works of William Beckford. Göteborg, Sweden : Skrifter utgivna av Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen vid Göteborgs universitet No. 41; printed by DocuSys, 2002. [GGIII: 0798]. 

CONANT, Martha Pike. “The Imaginative Group” (XXX). New York: Columbia University Press Studies in Comparative Literature Number 9, 1908; Rpt. New York: Octagon Books, 1966. In The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century. [GGI: 0307].

COPE, Kevin L. “Moral Travel and the Pursuit of Nothing; Vathek and Siris as Philosophical Monologue.” Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 18 (1988): 167-188. [GGII: 0206].

COPE, Kevin L. “William Beckford’s Vathek as Philosophical Monologue.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 265 (1989): 1673-1676. [GGII: 0207].

COPE. Kevin L. “Beckford and the Emerging Consciousness: Projective Collecting and the Aesthetic Dynamics of Acquisition.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1815-1819. (GGIII: 0803].  

CURLEY, Thomas. “William Beckford and the Romantic Tradition of Travel Literature.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1424-27. [GGIII: 0805].

DEBRUYN, Frans. “William Beckford” (XXXIX, 31-48). In British Novelists 1660-1800; Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Martin Battestin. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. [GGIII: 0806]. 

DEMATA, Massimiliano. “Discovering Eastern Horrors: Beckford, Maturin , and the Discourse of Travel Literature” (13-34). In Empire and the Gothic: The Politics of Genre, eds. Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003. [GGIII: 0808]. 

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” (571-586). In Transactions of the Fourth International Congress on the Enlightenment. [Exoticism and the Placing in Question of the Familial and Moral System in the Novel to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Beckford, Sade, Potocki]. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1976. [GGI: 0310].

DUPERRAY, Max. “Héros gothique et figure grotesque: Beckford et son Calife” (139-45). In Le Roman noir anglais dit “gothique,” ed. Max Duperray. Paris: Ellipses, 2000. [Gothic Heroes and Grotesque Figures: Beckford and his caliph]. [GGIII: 0811].

FARRELL, John T. “A Reinterpretation of the Major Literary Works of William Beckford.” Dissertation Abstracts International 45 (1984): 1758A (University of Delaware). [GGII: 0209].

FOLSOM, James K. “Beckford’s Vathek and the Tradition of Oriental Satire.” Criticism 6 (1964): 53-69. [GGI: 0313].

FOTHERGILL, Brian. “William Beckford, Prince of Amateurs.” Essays by Divers Hands 38 (1975): 33-47. [GGI: 0314].

FOTHERGILL, Brian. “The Influence of Landscape and Architecture on the Composition of Vathek.” (33-47). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0210].

FOTHERGILL, Brian. Beckford of Fontlhill. London: Faber & Faber, 1979. [GGI: 0314A].

FRANK, Frederick S. “William Beckford’s Vathek: An Arabian Tale” (2023-2027). In Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, ed. Keith Neilson. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983. [GGII: 0211].

FRANK, Frederick. “The Gothic Vathek: The Problem of Genre Resolved” (157-172). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0212].

FRANK, Frederick. “A Checklist of Vathek Criticism” (247-268). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0213].

FRANKLIN, Michael. “Beckford, William (1760-1844)” (20-23). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998. [GGIII: 0821]. 

GARNETT, Richard. “Beckford’s Vathek” (XXX). In Essays of an Ex-Librarian. London: Richard Heinemann, 1901; Rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1970. [GGI: 0316].

GARRETT, John. “Ending in Infinity: William Beckford’s Arabian Tale.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 5 (1992): 15-34. [GGII: 0214].

GARRETT, John. “Beckford’s Amorality: Deconstructing the House of Faith.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 346 (1996): 455-58. [GGIII: 0825].

GEMMETT, Robert James. “An Annotated Checklist of the Works of William Beckford.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 61 (1967): 243-258. [GGI: 0318].

GEMMETT, Robert James. “William Beckford: Bibliographical Addenda.” Bulletin of Bibliography 25 (1967): 62-64. [GGI: 0319].

GEMMETT, Robert James. “The Caliph Vathek from England and the Continent to America.” American Book Collector 18 (1968): 12-19. [GGI: 0320].

GEMMETT, Robert James. “The Critical Reception of William Beckford’s Fonthill.” English Miscellany 19 (1968): 133-151. [GGI: 0321].

GEMMETT, Robert James. “Introduction” (XXX). To Vathek. Delmar, NY: Scholar's Facsimiles and Reprints, 1972. [GGI: 0322].

GEMMETT, Robert James. William Beckford. Boston: Twayne, 1977. [GGI: 0323].

GIDDEY, Ernest. “Introduction” (XXX). To Vathek and its Episodes. Lausanne, Switzerland: Rencontre, 1962. [GGI: 0324].

GIDDEY, Ernest. “La Vision créatrice de Vathek de Beckford.” Lausaunne University Faculté des Lettres Publication 18 (1966): 43-56. [The Creative Vision of Beckford’s Vathek]. [GGIII: 0834].

GIDE, André, Lucien LAVAULT, Lewis MELVILLE and Valery LARBAUD. “Le Dossier Vathek.” Nouvelle Revue Française 54 (1913): 1044-1050. [GGI: 0326].

GIFFORD, Stephanie. “Genesis of a Caliph.” John O’London’s 24 August 1961: 221. [GGII: 0215].

GILL, R.B. “The Enlightened Occultist: Beckford’s Presence in Vathek” (131-143). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0216].

GILL, R.B. “The Author in the Novel: Creating Beckford in Vathek.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 15 (2003): 241-54. [GGIII: 0839].

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GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Beckford’s Vathek: A Study in Ironic Dissonance.” Criticism 14 (1972): 243-252. [GGI: 0328].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Who Revised the 1823 Vathek?” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 67 (1973): 315-322. [GGI: 0329].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Beckford’s Adaptation of the Oriental Tale in Vathek.” Enlightenment Essays 5:1 (1974): 24-33. [GGI: 0330].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Vathek in English and French.” Studies in Bibliography 28 (1975): 153-166. [GGI: 0331].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Implications of the Grotesque: Beckford’s Vathek and the Boundaries of Fictional Reality.” Tennessee Studies in Literature 73 (1978): 61-74. [GGI: 0332].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “‘Inconnue dans les Annales de la Terre’: Beckford’s Benign and Demonic Influence on Poe.” Sphinx: A Magazine of Literature and Society 4:4 (1985): 226-240. Rpt. (201-223). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0217].

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GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek: The Role of the Suppressed ’story of Alasi and Firouz.’” East-Central Intelligencer, new series 14:3 (2000): 10-12. [GGIII: 0848].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W . ed. “Introduction” (17-40). To Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001. [GGIII: 0849].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Perverse Interactions of the Gothic, Enlightened, and Oriental: William Beckford's Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek ” (119-30) In William Beckford and the New Millennium, eds. Kenneth W. Graham & Kevin Berland. New York: AMS Press, 2004. [GGIV: 0000].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. & Kevin BERLAND, eds. William Beckford and the New Millennium, eds. Kenneth W. Graham & Kevin Berland. New York: AMS Press, 2004. [GGIV: 0000].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “‘Painting the Eyes of the Circassians’: Samuel Henley's Mistranslations in Vathek .” English Studies in Italy 18 (2005): 173-88. [GGIV: 0000].

GREEN, Andrew J. “Essays in Miniature: Vathek.” College English 3 (1942): 723-724.

GRIGORESCU, Dan, ed. Batrinul Baron Englez: Vathek.” trans. Raluca Dana Cotruta. Bucharest, Romania: Minerva Press, 1987. [GGII: 0219].

GRIMM, Reinhold. “Vathek in Deutschland: Zwei zwischenfälle ohne folgen?” Revue de Littérature Comparée 38 (1964): 127-135. [Vathek in Germany]. [GGI: 0334].

GRIMSDITCH, Herbert B. “Introduction” (XXX). To Vathek. Illustrated with lithographs by Edward Bawden. London: Folio Press, 1958. [GGI: 0335].

GUERRA, Oliva. “Sintra e Lord Beckford.” Coloquio 46 (1967): 14-16. [GGI: 0336].

HAGGERTY , George. “Beckford’s Pæderasty” (123-42). In Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Culture, eds. Thomas DiPiero & Pat Gill. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1997. [GGIII: 0854].

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]. [GGIII: 0855]. 

HEPPENSTALL, Rayner. “The Palace of Subterranean Fire” (XXX). In The Fourfold Tradition, Notes on French and English Literatures, With Some Ethnnological and Historical Asides. London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1961. [GGI: 0338].

HERRICK, George H. “Fabulous Fonthill.” College Art Journal 12 (1953): 128-131. [GGI: 0339].

HODGKIN, John. “The Nonesuch Vathek.” [London] Times Literary Supplement 26 December 1929: 1097. [GGI: 0340].

HOLLINGSWORTH, Keith. “Vathek and the ‘Ode to a Nightingale.’” [London] Times Literary Supplement 27 October 1961: 771. [GGI: 0341].

HUNTER, A.O. “Le Vathek de William Beckford: Historique des éditions françaises.” Revue de Littérature Comparée 15 (1935): 119-126. [William Beckford’s Vathek: History of the French Editions].  [GGI: 0342].

HUSSAIN, Imdad. “Beckford, Wainewright, De Quincey, and Oriental Exoticism.” Venture 1 (1960): 234-248. [GGI: 0343].

HYLAND, Peter. “Vathek, Heaven and Hell” (145-155). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0220].

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JACK, Malcolm. “William Beckford: The Poor Arabian Storyteller.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 346 (1996): 451-53. [GGIII: 0866].

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JAMES, Jamie. “The Caliph of Fonthill.” American Scholar 72 (2003): 67-79. [GGIV: 0000].  

JANTZEN, Hermann. “Source of ‘The Hall of Eblis’ by B. Cornwall.’” Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 107 (1902): 318-323. [GGI: 0345].

JEAN-AUBRY, G. “Autour de Vathek de William Beckford.” Revue de Littérature Comparée 16 (1936): 549-562. [GGI: 0346].

JOHNSON, H. Brimley. “Introduction” (XXX). To Vathek. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1922. [GGI: 0347].

KLEIN, Jürgen. “Vathek and Decadence” (173-199). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0221].

KNIPP, Charles C. “Types of Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England .” Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1974): 2944A-2945A (University of California, Berkeley). [GGI: 0348].

KNOX-SHAW, P.H. “The West Indian Vathek.” Essays in Criticism. 43 (1993): 284-307. [GGIII: 0873].

KNOX-SHAW, P.H.. “Vathek and ‘The Seven Fountains’ by Sir William Jones.” Notes & Queries. 42:240 (1995): 75-76. [GGIII: 0874].

LACROIX, Jean. “William Beckford, voyageur-voyeur: La Realite et son ‘double’; Scritti in memoria di Lynn Salkin Sbiroli” (73-92). In Il Senso del nonsenso, eds. Monique Streiff Moretti, Mireille Revol Cappelletti. Naples: Edizioni Scientifche Italiane, 1994. [William Beckford, voyager-voyeur: The reality of his double]. [GGIII: 0875].

LANE-POOLE, Stanley. “The Author of Vathek.” Quarterly Review 213 (October, 1910): 377-401. [GGI: 0349].

LANGE, Bernd-Peter. “Orientierungsarbeit: Radikale Fantasie in William Beckfords Vathek.” Zeitschrift für Anglistkik und Amerikanstik 33 (1985): 33-43. [Directional Work: Radical Fantasy in William Beckford's Vathek]. [GGII: 0222].

LEES-MILNE, James. William Beckford. Tisbury, UK: Compton Russell, 1976; Rpt. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld & Schram, 1979. [GGI: 0350].

LEYAOUANC, Collette. Le Thème Sexuel dans Vathek” (257-264). In Linguistique, Civilisation, Littérature, ed André Bordeaux. Paris: Didier, 1980. [The Sexual Theme in Vathek]. [GGII: 0223].

LIU, Alan. “Toward a Theory of Common Sense: Beckford’s Vathek and Johnson’s Rasselas.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 26 (1984): 183-217. [GGII: 0224].

LOCKHART, John Gibson. “Introduction” (XXX). To Vathek. London: Allan, 1923. [GGI: 0351].

LONSDALE, Roger. “Introduction” (vii-xxxi). To Vathek. London: Oxford University Press, 1970. [GGI: 0352].

MAGNIER, Mireille. “Vathek Hommage à Voltaire ou Avatar de Faust?” Mythes, Croyances, et Religions de la Monde Anglo-Saxon 4 (1986): 98-108. [GGII: 0225].

MAHMOUD, Fatma Moussa. “Beckford, Vathek, and the Oriental Tale” (63-121). In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844. Bicentenary Essays. Cairo: Egypt: C. Tsoumas, 1960. [GGI: 0353].

MAHMOUD, Fatma Moussa. “Rasselas and Vathek.” In Bicentenary Essays on Rasselas, ed. Magdi Wahba. Cairo, Egypt: Cairo Studies in English, 1960.[GGI: 0354].

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MAHMOUD, Fatma Moussa. “A Monument of the Author of Vathek.” Études Anglaises 15 (1962): 138-47. [GGIII: 0887].

MAHMOUD, Fatma Moussa. “Oriental in Picaresque: A Chapter in the History of the Oriental Tale in England”  (145-88). In Oriental Tales and Influences in 19th Century. Cairo: Cairo Studies in English, 1961-1962. [GGIII: 0888].

MAKTABI, Anas. “The Representation of Islam and Muslims in Eighteenth Century British Fiction.” Dissertation Abstracts International 62:1 (2001): 183 ( Indiana University of Pennsylvania ). [GGIII: 0889].

MANZALAOUI, Mahmoud. “Pseudo-Orientalism in Transition: The Age of Vathek” (XXX). In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844. Bicentenary Essays, ed. Fatma Moussa Mahmoud. Cairo, Egypt: C. Tsoumas, 1960. [GGI: 0356].

MARLOW, Harriet. “Beckford’s Vathek, ‘Londres 1791.’” Book Collector 11 (1962): 211. [GGI: 0357].

MAY, Marcel. La Jeunesse de William Beckford et la genèse de son ‘Vathek.’ Paris: Presses Univeritaires de France, 1928. [The Youth of William Beckford and the Genesis of His Vathek]. [GGI: 0359].

MAYNARD, Temple J. “The Landscape of Vathek.” Transactions of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest 7 (1974): 79-98. [GGI: 0360].

MAYNARD, Temple J. “Depictions of Persepolis and William Beckford’s Istakar.” Eighteenth Century Life 3 (1977): 119-22. [GGIII: 0894].

MAYNARD, Temple J. “Eschewing Present Pleasure for an Eternity of Bliss: The Irreligious Motivation of Beckford’s Protagonists in Vathek.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 265 (1989): 1673-1676. [GGII: 0226].

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MELVILLE, Lewis. “Introduction” (XXX). To The Episodes of Vathek, trans. Sir Frank T. Marzials. London: Stephen Swift, 1912. [GGI: 0362].

MENASCÉ, Esther. “Di Quà e di la della Manica: Vathek Favole e Fantasmi.” Studi di Letteratura Francese 13 (1987): 78-104. [Of the Coat and of the Sleeve: Vathek, Fable and Fantasy]. [GGII: 0228].

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PIRES, Maria Laura Bettencourt. “Vathek and Portugal” (225-246). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0229].

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