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According to David Hume, "The mind is a kind of theatre where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations." Hume's well-known account of personal identity aptly describes William Beckford--petulant heir to great wealth, a member of Parliament, connoisseur, architectural dilettante, fugitive from sexual scandal, and author of Vathek, one of the most enjoyable and intriguing of the eighteenth-century Oriental tales. Across the pages of Vathek and, indeed, of Beckford's whole life pass and mingle the successive actors of his disjointed identity.
Recommended Citation
Gill, R.B.
(2003)
"The Author in the Novel: Creating Beckford in Vathek,"
Eighteenth-Century Fiction:
Vol. 15:
Iss.
2, Article 4.
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http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/ecf/vol15/iss2/4