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Fonthill recovered : a cultural history
Dakers, Caroline

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s e…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781787350458
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xxiii, 397 p. ill;
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942.319 FON C