Fonthill recovered : a cultural history /
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...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.