Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art And the Prospect of India

The authors (both professors of English at the U. of Tulsa) examine the artistic productions of English artists traveling in India in the 1780s and 90s, arguing that the "energy of their original vision of the prospect of India was more than well received--and it became the visual impetus and the cultural fuel fro an Indian Renaissance in the art and culture of Romantic Britain." The term prospect is used to encompass the visual meanings technical to art history, the suggestions of the term in philosophical discourse, and the practical assumptions of tangible acquisition of empire. In addition to some 60 color plates, the text is illustrated with black and white art reproductions throughout. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Hermione de Almeida is Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa, USA. She is author of Romantic Medicine and John Keats (Oxford, 1991), Byron and Joyce Through Homer (Columbia, 1981), and other works on Romanticism. George H. Gilpin is Professor of English at the University of Tulsa and Scholar-in-Residence in Special Collections at McFarlin Library. He is the author of The Art of Contemporary English Culture (Macmillan, 1991) and other works on Romanticism and British art.