Author: Fanny Parkes ParlbyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368900080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan
Author: Fanny Parkes ParlbyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368900080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan; Displaying the Scenery of the Hoogly, the Bhagirathi, and the Ganges, from Fort William, Bengal, to Gangoutri, in the Himalaya
Author: Fanny ParksPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387068948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Grand Moving Diorama of Hindost?N
Author: Fanny Parkes ParlbyPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan by Fanny Parkes Parlby: Step into the vivid and enchanting world of India through the eyes of Fanny Parkes Parlby in "Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan." This travelogue takes you on a journey through 19th-century India, offering rich descriptions of its culture, landscapes, and people. Fanny Parkes Parlby's keen observations provide a captivating glimpse into the India of her time. Key Aspects of the Book "Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan": Travel Exploration: Fanny Parkes Parlby's travelogue offers a fascinating exploration of India during the 19th century, providing valuable historical and cultural insights. Descriptive Prose: The author's descriptive prose brings India's diverse landscapes and vibrant culture to life, allowing readers to immerse themselves in its beauty and complexity. Personal Perspective: Gain a personal perspective on India through the eyes of an intrepid female traveler in an era when such journeys were rare. Fanny Parkes Parlby was a British travel writer and memoirist who lived during the 19th century. She traveled extensively throughout India with her husband, a British colonial officer, and her writings, including "Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan," provide valuable historical records of her experiences in India. Her work continues to be studied for its insights into British colonial life and 19th-century India.
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
Author: Margot FinnPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Devices of Wonder
Author: Barbara Maria StaffordPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365906
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 13 November 2001 to 3 February 2002.
Illusions in Motion
Author: Erkki HuhtamoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262313103
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191554391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on recent scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather than 'transparent' adventure stories or documentary sources, he sets out to challenge the tendency in modern academic work to overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse. Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of credit worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing. Attentive to the often divergent idioms of elite and popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was challenged by picturesque aesthetics, systematic 'geographical narrative', and the emergence of a 'transcendental self' axiomatic to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods.
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