Beth Fowkes Tobin

Picturing Imperial Power

Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting

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Produktbeschreibung

"Tobin combines an exacting and often lyrical evocation of visual effects in the paintings she considers with the explication of a remarkable range of historical occasions, situations, and transitions. Through her patient accounting of individual images, she opens up wide vistas on the operations of British colonialism while still rendering those operations with dimensionality and great nuance."--Jill Campbell, author o"f Nature's Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780822323389
• ISBN-10: 0822323389
• Artikelnr.: 22037633

Autorenporträt

Beth Fowkes Tobin

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Toward a Cultural History of Colonialism 1
Bringing the Empire Home: The Black Servant in Domestic Portraiture 27
Native Land and Foreign Desires: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians 56
Cultural Cross-Dressing in British America: Portraits of British Officers
and Mohawk Warriors 81
Accomodating India: Domestic Arrangements in Anglo-Indian Family
Portraiture 110
Taxonomy and Agency in Brunias's West Indian Paintings 139
Imperial Designs: Botanical Illustration and the British Botanic Empire 174
The Imperial Politics of the Local and the Universal 202
Notes 227
Selected Bibliography 279
Index 301