2011
| This volume explores how photography represented, idealized and publicized the Delhi Coronation Durbars, occasions marking the formal coronations of English monarchs as empress and emperors of India: Victoria in 1877, Edward VII in 1903 and George V in 1911. |
2008
| Political economy is defined in this volume as collective state or corporate support for art and architecture in the public sphere intended to be accessible to the widest possible public, raising questions about the relationship of the state to cultural production and consumption.This collection of essays explores the political economy of art from the perspective of the artist or from analysis of art's production and consumption, emphasising the art side of the relationship between art and stat....[more] |
2006
| Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema is an original collection of essays that introduces the study of film theory through contemporary issues. Using topics of genre, gender, and race, this book encourages critical discussion, combining formal, historical, cultural, and theoretical approaches to the study of world cinema. It examines issues at the forefront of contemporary film studies: bodies, technology, mobile identities, sexuality, transnationality, globalism, diaspora/home, and post-cinemat....[more] |
2004
| Encounters in the Victorian Periodical Press focuses on the unique characteristic of the Victorian periodical press--its development of encounters between and among readers, editors, and authors. Encounters promoted dialogue among diverse publics, differing by class, gender, professional and political interests, and ethnicity. Through encounters, the press emerged to become a central public space for debates about society, politics, culture, public order, and foreign and imperial affairs. This b....[more] |
2003
| "Exposing and detailing the subtle challenges to colonial “prejudices” in the late-Victorian and early-modern press provides this collection of essays with its impetus. The result is a vigorous, detailed, and readable book that explores the colonial construction of empire and the postcolonial resistance to it in the Victorian home and colonial press."--Allan H. Simmons, from English Literature in Translation, 1880-1920. Vol. 47 No. 3 (2004) |
2002
| This study examines the origins, development and explosion of biographical literature on artists in Britain between 1870 and 1910. It analyzes a variety of narrative modes, including gossip, anecdotes, and serialization, as well as the differences among genres (autobiographies, family biographies, biographical histories and dictionaries.) Julie Codell discerns the multiple, often conflicting identities that were ascribed to artists collectively, and as individuals. Her book serves as a timely so....[more] |
1998
| The cultural impact of the British on their colonies has been extensively investigated, but this text asks in what way British culture was transformed by its contact with the colonies. The essays in this volume demonstrate how influential the Empire was on British culture during the 19th century. They show how, from cross-cultural cross-dressing to Buddhism, British artists and writers appropriated unfamiliar and challenging aspects of the culture of Empire for their own purposes. An examination....[more] |
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