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100 1  $a Châtel, Laurent, $e author.
245 10 $a William Beckford : $b the elusive Orientalist / $c Laurent Châtel.
264  1 $a Oxford : $b Voltaire Foundation, $c [2016]
300    $a xvi, 247 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm.
490 1  $a Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, $x 0435-2866 ; $v 2016:11
501    $a Bound with: Correspondance du Président de Brosses et de l'Abbe Marquis Niccolini. $5 IaU
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242) and index.
505 0  $a Introduction -- Part I. Orientalist Beckford. Turning East : Orientalist learning, aesthetics and taste -- 'As Indian as ever' : 'the long story' -- 'Sparks of Orientalism' : Beckford's 'children of the Nights' -- 'Such a valuable morsel of Orientalism' : Beckford's Vathek and its Episodes -- Part II. In search of the author : authorised translations and translated authorship. '[N]os bons literateurs ont paru meme ignorer leur existence.' Invisible in France? The French reception of Beckford, 1760-1876 -- 'Inconnu dans les annales de la terre' : the missed fortune of Beckford -- Conclusion : Beckford re-Oriented -- Appendix A. Beckford's Orientalist collection of books, prints and drawings -- Appendix B. 'Beckford Orientalising' : dreaming of Father Urreta's Ethiopian underworld.
520    $a "The writer and aesthete William Beckford (1760-1844) was a fascinating embodiment of the sublime egotist. Because of his extravagance, fabulousness and enigmatic nature, biographers have alternately presented him as an object of fascination or dismissed him as an insolent and deceptive character. Laurent Châtel provides an innovative reassessment of Beckford by presenting 'elusiveness' as the defining motif for understanding both the writer and his work. Laurent Châtel opens his analysis by exploring the author's fascination for the East, which informed several of his multi-layered works such as 'The long story', 'Suite des contes arabes' and Vathek. By reconnecting him with the eighteenth-century aesthetic of translation and reappropriation of the Arabian nights, Châtel shows how Beckford's Orientalism was key to his elusiveness, and presents him as a fabulist who supplemented existing tales with touches of wonder and horror. In further chapters Châtel explores his lack of recognition as a man of letters--whether desired or not. Through an analysis of the arguably limited reception of Beckford's works, in particular in France both during his lifetime and immediately after his death, we see how his deliberate elusiveness of style was constitutive of his identity."--Page 4 of cover.
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