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100	1		_aDakers, Caroline _4edt
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245	1	0	_aFonthill Recovered : A Cultural History
260			_bUCL Press _c2018
300			_a1 electronic resource (428 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aFonthill, 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 excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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650		7	_aConservation, restoration & care of artworks _2bicssc
650		7	_aArchitecture _2bicssc
650		7	_aHistory of architecture _2bicssc
650		7	_aMuseology & heritage studies _2bicssc
650		7	_aCultural studies _2bicssc
650		7	_aConservation of buildings & building materials _2bicssc
650		7	_aHistory of art / art & design styles _2bicssc
650		7	_aHistory of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800 _2bicssc
650		7	_aArt & design styles: Baroque _2bicssc
650		7	_aArt & design styles: Classicism _2bicssc
650		7	_aHistory of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900 _2bicssc
650		7	_aArt & design styles: Romanticism _2bicssc
650		7	_aArt & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art _2bicssc
650		7	_aHistory of art & design styles: from c 1900 - _2bicssc
653			_awiltshire
653			_afonthill abbey
653			_aarchitecture
653			_acountry house
653			_aLondon
653			_aWilliam Beckford (novelist)
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