Fonthill recovered a cultural history
Electronic resources
Record details
- ISBN: 9781787350458
- ISBN: 9781787350441
- ISBN: 1787350452
- ISBN: 1787350444
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxvi, 402 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color)
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electronic resource - Publisher: London : UCL Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-396) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Caroline Dakers -- Part one. The narrative -- The early history of Fonthill / David Roberts -- Fonthill from the Middle Ages to 1744 : the first Fonthill House / Neil Burton -- The Beckford era / Amy Frost -- The break-up of the Fonthill estate ; Fonthill in the nineteenth century ; Fonthill in the twentieth century ; Out of the ruins : new houses at Fonthill / Caroline Dakers -- Part two. The essays -- The geophysical survey west of Fonthill Lake / David Roberts -- The landscape of Fonthill / Min Wood -- The early paintings of Fonthill / Jeannie Chapel -- The Cottington and Bradshaw burials in Westminster Abbey / Susan Jenkins -- The wealth of the Beckfords / Sidney Blackmore -- The landscape at Fonthill : an assessment of the grottoes and their builders / Michael Cousins -- William Thomas Beckford : between dalliance and duty / Lawrence Klein -- Reading Vathek and Fonthill Abbey : William Beckford's architectural imagination / Peter N. Lindfield and Dale Townshend -- Fonthill and its Maecenae : works of art lost and found / Martin P. Levy -- Little Ridge / Michael Drury -- The Smithsons at Upper Lawn Pavilion / Amy Frost -- Fonthill Abbey, terror and videogames at the British Library / Greg Buzwell -- Epilogue / Caroline Dakers. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |