... text and analysis must therefore be regarded as final. WILLIAMB. TODD University of Texas Witliam Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. Edited by FATMAMOUSSA MAHMOUD. Supplement to Cairo Studies in English, 1960...

..., idol of William Beckford—and on the efforts of the novelist and critic Stendhal to “remember” Pacchierotti’s lost voice. Stendhal never heard Pacchierotti in his prime, but in his 1824 Vie de Rossini he declared that the art of bel canto had reached its apogee with Pacchierotti in 1778: five years...

.... WILLIAMB. TODD University of Texas Witliam Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. Edited by FATMAMOUSSA MAHMOUD. Supplement to Cairo Studies in English, 1960. Pp. 157. P.T. 40; $1.00. This volume from the University of Cairo indicates that Egyptian scholars...

... been acknowledged as an amusing sham, and literary historians pay it too little serious attention. One wishes, therefore, that there were more such comments as in Mahmoud‘s firm correction of Beckford to instruct and delight the Western reader. This volume is excellently conceived...

... demonstrates how aesthetic freedom was defined relative to black slavery; how ideologies of consumption were fabricated by histories of race and taste; and how Caribbean servitude created prestigious art collections owned by plantocratic philanthropists from William Beckford to Christopher Codrington...

... in his Swiss journey of 1779 (though he did not write down the record as we have it until 1796) and again his ecstatic adoring of granite as primal rock in his essay “On Granite” (1784). We note the adolescent posturings of William Beckford at the Grande Charteuse and in Italy in 1778,24...

... to be learned from Harold, who “bask’d him in the noon-tide sun, / Dis- porting there like any other fly” (4). Essentially, it is the same lesson which the narrator will later draw from the ruins of Beckford’s man- sion: that worldly pleasures are transient and thus the wholesale pursuit of them must...

... in the anonymous Short Journey in the West Indies (London, 1790), 11, pp. 48, 51 ; William Snelgrave, New Account of Guinea (London, 1734), p. 168; and William Beckford, Remarks ubon the Situation of Negroes in Jamaica (London, 1788), p. 11. 404 The Realism of “0ro.onoko” were rare...

... bourgeois standards, why not simply ignore these? And thus, the cynicism of Baudelaire was opposed to the suggestion of saner reformers; the marquis de Sade was put above Diderot; Beckford’s Yathek and Lewis’ Monk were preferred to “l’admirable cohorte des romanciers britanniques.” Obviously...

... of collective religious life, which is not just the result of (individual) religious connections, but which in some way constitutes or is that connection” (24). The sociologist James A. Beckford ( 2003 : 2) presents this concept as a disciplinary axiom: “Whatever else religion is, it is a social phenomenon...

... and Design in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. London, New York, Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1961. Pp. xi + 152. $5.00. Mahmoud, Fatma Moussa (editor). William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844. Bicentenary Essays. Supplement to Cairo Studies in English, 1960. Pp. 157. P.T. 40...

... to the poem frequently refer to the biography for corrobo- ration of Byron’s passions. William Beckford’s marginalia in his copy of Moore, now in Yale’s Beinecke Library, reveal his suspicions about Byron’s sexuality: When we combine together the various characteristic anecdotes con...

... proceeds to explore how these implications are re- flected in Hume’s “skeptical empiricism” and Johnson’s “reverent empiricism” (Johnson gets most of the good lines). Turning to the issue of ‘‘spiritual horror” in the eighteenth-century novel (Richard- son, Radcliffe, Beckford, Lewis), he proposes...

... of the “homosexualized genius” in the works and careers of William Beckford, William Cowper, Anne Bannerman, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anne Damer. Glaringly absent is Byron. Despite Elfenbein’s explanation that he has discussed Byron elsewhere, one misses...

... of the “homosexualized genius” in the works and careers of William Beckford, William Cowper, Anne Bannerman, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anne Damer. Glaringly absent is Byron. Despite Elfenbein’s explanation that he has discussed Byron elsewhere, one misses...

... of the “homosexualized genius” in the works and careers of William Beckford, William Cowper, Anne Bannerman, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anne Damer. Glaringly absent is Byron. Despite Elfenbein’s explanation that he has discussed Byron elsewhere, one misses...

... of the “homosexualized genius” in the works and careers of William Beckford, William Cowper, Anne Bannerman, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anne Damer. Glaringly absent is Byron. Despite Elfenbein’s explanation that he has discussed Byron elsewhere, one misses...

... At Christmas 1800 she posed as Cleopatra while the guest of the notoriously immoral William “Vathek” Beckford. At the party he threw in her and Nelson’s honor, “carafes of rose-water . . . freshly imported from Shiraz” were served; one visitor “left the Abbey grounds scarce able to believe...