William Thomas Beckford: Between dalliance and duty

William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844) is a bewildering historical subject not just because of the actual complexities of his career. As many have recognised, the dif-ficulty is that, over a long life, he left such extensive and stylish writings on himself, his inner life and his responses to all manne...

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1. Verfasser:	Lawrence Klein
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Zusammenfassung:	William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844) is a bewildering historical subject not just because of the actual complexities of his career. As many have recognised, the dif-ficulty is that, over a long life, he left such extensive and stylish writings on himself, his inner life and his responses to all manner of things. Thus, it is easy to mine his writings for discrepancy and contradiction, but not so easy to characterise him unambiguously. As he admitted to his companion Gregorio Franchi, a lot of what he said and wrote was just ‘words, words, words’.¹ One telling instance of discrepancy, if not