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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript [Vathek]"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Light"
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Date: w. 1782, 1786, 1816
"He consoled himself, however, for this intruding and unwelcome perception of his littleness, with the thought of being great in the eyes of others; and flattered himself that the light of his mind would extend beyond the reach of his sight, and extort from the stars the decrees of his destiny."
preview | full record— Beckford, William (1760-1844)