Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of IndiaAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005 - 336 من الصفحات 'Indian Renaissance' offers a comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions of India became a stimulus for the Romantic movement in England, as well as a survey of the transformation of the images brought home by these artists into the cultural imperatives of imperial Victorian Britain. |
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Foreword | vii |
List of Illustrations | xi |
Color Plates | xvi |
The Idea of India Tiger Tree and Cave | 33 |
Tigers of All Stripes | 35 |
The Great Banyan Tree of India | 40 |
The CaveTemple of Elephanta Eroticism and Art | 47 |
The Indian Prospect in English Romantic Art and Literature | 55 |
Imperial Vision The Progress from Cornwallis to Wellesley | 167 |
The View from the Hillforts | 176 |
Thomas Daniell and the Picturesque Possession of India | 181 |
Times are Changed Early and Late Views of Calcutta | 183 |
Travel and Picturesque Possession | 189 |
Oriental Scenery From Bengal to Madras 17957 | 194 |
Twelve Singular Antiquities of India 17991800 | 200 |
Objects and Scenes of Conquest 18011803 | 203 |
Sanskrit Translations for an Indian Renaissance | 57 |
The Ideal of India Ancient India as the Uroffenbarung of the Romantic Era | 60 |
Oriental Fantasies and Indian Prospects | 65 |
Tilly Kettles Theater of India | 67 |
The Dancing Girl of Faizabad | 74 |
Artists and Traders at Oudh | 75 |
Edenic Nights and Everyday Living | 80 |
The Paradise of the Nayars | 89 |
Natural Paradise and Natural History | 92 |
English Romantic Art and the Indian Prospect | 101 |
The Royal Academy and the Prospect of India | 103 |
Patronage of Learning By a GovernorGeneral | 108 |
Hodges Indian Sublime | 114 |
Temple Gloom and Rural Complexity | 126 |
Conversations in Calcutta and Oudh | 132 |
The Legacy of Clive and Hastings | 141 |
Storming Seringapatam The Drama and Romance of Empire | 145 |
Little Boys Lost | 147 |
Romantic Revolutionary Mysore | 154 |
Storming Seringapatam | 158 |
TwentyFour Landscapes Composed Too Perfectly 18041805 | 205 |
Singular India 1808 | 208 |
Dark Prospects in the Light of Empire | 213 |
Something New The Freaks of Gold | 215 |
Devolution of an Indian Prospect | 224 |
Missionaries of Empire | 228 |
The Imperial Sublime of James Baillie Fraser | 234 |
Savage Forms and Natural Landscapes for the Imperial Traveler | 245 |
DOyly The View from an Elephants Back | 257 |
Elegies to an Indian Renaissance | 265 |
Empire Follows Art The Retrospections of Hodges and Zoffany | 267 |
Blakes Prophecies Against Empire | 271 |
Blakes Indian Epic | 280 |
Turner and the Dragons of Empire | 286 |
George Chinnery The Last Romantic Artist of India | 295 |
The Prospect from a Distance | 302 |
Notes | 305 |
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