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ALEXANDER, Boyd. “William Beckford: Man of Taste.” History Today 10 (1960): 686-694. [GGI: 0281].

ALEXANDER, Boyd. “The Decay of Beckford’s Genius” (XXX). In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. Ed. Fatma Moussa Mahmoud. Cairo, Egypt: C. Tsoumas, 1960; Rpt. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1972. [GGI: 0282].

ALEXANDER, Boyd. “William Beckford of Fonthill.” Yale University Library Gazette 35 (1961): 161-169. [GGI: 0283].

ALEXANDER, Boyd. England’s Wealthiest Son: A Study of William Beckford. London: Centaur Press, 1962. [GGI: 0284].

AL-RAWI, Ahmed K. "The Arabic Ghoul and its Western Transformation." Folklore 120.3 (2009): 291-306.

ANDERSEN, Jorgen. “Giant Dreams: Piranesi’s Influence in England.” English Miscellany 3 (1952): 49-59. [GGI: 0285].

ARMOUR, Richard W. “The Caliph of Fonthill.” Reading and Collecting 1 (1937): 9-10. [GGI: 0286].

BABB, James T. “William Beckford of Fonthill.” Yale University Library Gazette 41 (1966): 60-69. [GGII: 0203].

BARIDON, Michel. “La Modernité de Beckford.” Cahiers Charles 5:9 (1988): 19-40. [The Modernity of Beckford]. [GGII: 0204].

BARIDON, Michel. “Vathek––Megalomaniac Caliph or Pundit of the Avant Garde?” (73-95). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. Ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0205].

BELL, C. F. “William Beckford.” [London] Times Literary Supplement 13 May 1944: 235. [GGI: 0288].

BELLOC, Hilaire. “On Vathek” (XXX). A Conversation with an Angel and Other Essays. New York: Harper, 1929. [GGI: 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). [GGIII: 0771]. 

BLOOM, Margaret. “William Beckford’s Vathek.” University of California Chronicle  33 (1931): 424-431.[GGI: 0291].

BORGES, Jorge Luis. “About William Beckford’s Vathek” (XXX). In Other Inquisitions 1937-1952. trans. Ruth L.C. Sims. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. [GGI: 0292].

BOYD, Alexander, ed. Life at Fonthill, 1807-1822: From the Correspondence of William Beckford. Stroud: Nonsuch, 2006.

BREWER, Lawton A. "Life After Pseudodeath: William Beckford's VATHEK." The Explicator 67.3 (2009): 170.

BROCKMAN, Harold A.N. The Caliph of Fonthill, intro. Nikolaus Pevsner. London: Werner Laurie, 1956. [GGI: 0293].

BRUCE, Donald. “William Beckford as Writer and Collector.” Contemporary Review 280:1635 (2002): 227-233. [GGIII: 0776].

BRUNEAU, Jean. “Madame de Genlis, William Beckford et Vathek.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 5 (1977): 34-38. [GGI: 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] [GGIII: 0779]. 

CARTER, John. “Two Beckford Collections.” Colophon, New Graphic Series 1 (1939): 67-74. [GGI: 0298].

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). 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). British Novelists 1660-1800; Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Martin Battestin. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. 31-48. [GGIII: 0806]. 

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

DEMEESTER, Marie E. “Vathek and its Influence” (XXX). Oriental Influences in the English Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Heidelberg, Germany: Winters, 1915. [GGI: 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” (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].

DURING, Simon. "Backford in Hell: an Episode in the History of Secular Enchantment." Huntington Library Quarterly 70.2 (2007): 269-V.

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.” Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. 33-47. [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.” Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. 247-268. [GGII: 0213].

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

GARNETT, Richard. “Beckford’s Vathek” (XXX). 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). 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). 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.” Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. Ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. 131-143. [GGII: 0216].

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

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. Ed. Boyd Alexander. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. [GGI: 0327].

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].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Introduction” (1-7). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0218].

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. Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001. 17-40. [GGIII: 0849].

GRAHAM, Kenneth W. “Perverse Interactions of the Gothic, Enlightened, and Oriental: William Beckford's Vathek with the Episodes of Vathek .” William Beckford and the New Millennium. Eds. Kenneth W. Graham & Kevin Berland. New York: AMS Press, 2004. 119-30. [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). 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.” Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Culture. Eds. Thomas DiPiero & Pat Gill. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1997. 123-42. [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). 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].

JACK, Malcolm. “William Beckford; Traveler, Artist, Escapist.” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 305 (1992): 1823-24. [GGIII: 0864].

JACK, Malcolm. Introduction. Vathek and Other Stories. A William Beckford Reader. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1993; London : Penguin Books, 1995. ix-xxxiii. [GGIII: 0865]. 

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

JACK, Malcolm. William Beckford: An English Fidalgo. New York: AMS Press, 1996. [GGIII: 0867].

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). Vathek. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1922. [GGI: 0347].

KLEIN, Jürgen. “Vathek and Decadence.” Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations. Ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. 173-199. [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.” Il Senso del nonsenso, eds. Monique Streiff Moretti, Mireille Revol Cappelletti. Naples: Edizioni Scientifche Italiane, 1994. 73-92. [William Beckford, voyager-voyeur: The reality of his double]. [GGIII: 0875].

LANDRY, Donna. "William Beckford's Vathek and the uses of Oriental Re-enactment." The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West." Ed. Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum. Oxford and New York: OUP, 2008. 167-94.

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.” Linguistique, Civilisation, Littérature. Ed André Bordeaux. Paris: Didier, 1980. 257-264. [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). Vathek. London: Allan, 1923. [GGI: 0351].

LONSDALE, Roger. Introduction. Vathek. London: Oxford University Press, 1970. vii-xxxi. [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].

MAHMOUD, Fatma Moussa, ed. William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844. Bicentenary Essays. Cairo, Egypt: C. Tsoumas, 1960; Rpt. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1972. [GGI: 0353].

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.” Oriental Tales and Influences in 19th Century. Cairo: Cairo Studies in English, 1961-1962. 145-88. [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].

MAYNARD, Temple J. “The Escape from Time and the Movement Underground” (9-31). In Vathek and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revaluations, ed. Kenneth W. Graham. New York: AMS Press, 1990. [GGII: 0227].

MAYOUX, Jean-Jacques. “La Damnation de Beckford.” English Miscellany 12 (1961): 41-77. [GGI: 0361].

McCALMAN, Iain. "The Virtual Infernal: Philippe de Loutherbourg, William Beckford and the Spectacle of the Sublime." Romanticism on the Net 46 (2007).

MELVILLE, Lewis. Introduction (XXX). 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].

MILLINGTON, Jon. The Beckford Society Annual Lectures, 1996-1999. Bristol: Beckford Society, 2000. [GGIII: 0900].

MOCHI, Giovanna. “L‘Inferno rassicurante di Vathek.” Paragone 350 (1979): 64-102. [The Reassuring Hell of Vathek]. [GGI: 0363].

MORE, Paul Elmer. “William Beckford.” The Drift of Romanticism. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1913. 1-36. [GGI: 0364].

MOURET, Francois J. “Le Vathek de William Beckford et le ‘Voyage d‘Urien’ d’André Gide.” Modern Language Review 64 (1969): 774-776. [GGI: 0365].

OLIVER, John W. The Life of William Beckford. London: Oxford University Press, 1932. [GGI: 0366].

OSTERGARD, Derek, ed. William Beckford, 1760-1844: An Eye for the Magnificent. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. [GGIII: 0905].

PARREAUX, André. “Beckford and Byron.” Études Anglaises 8 (1955): 11-31; 113-132. [GGI: 0367].

PARREAUX, André. “Un Vathek ignoré.” Bulletin de Bibliophile et du Bibliothecairé  5 (1957): 176-179. [An Unknown Vathek]. [GGI: 0368].

PARREAUX, André. “Beckford’s Vathek, ‘Londres 1791.’” Book Collector 7 (1958): 297-299. [GGI: 0369].

PARREAUX, André. “Beckford en Italie: Rêve et voyage en XVIIIe siècle.” Revue de Littérature Comparée 33 (1959): 321-347. [Beckford in Italy: Dream and Voyage in the Eighteenth Century]. [GGI: 0370].

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