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Jain Paintings and Material Culture of Medieval Western India 1100–1650

Jain Paintings and Material Culture of Medieval Western India 1100–1650

Through a curated collection of key Jain paintings this volume offers a glimpse into the way people lived in western India during the medieval times: What they wore how they ornamented themselves what they amused themselves with what furniture they sat on which modes of transport they used. It includes Jain paintings from various collections in India and abroad to underscore the value of pictorial evidence in piecing together the past. The book takes the reader on a breath-taking visual journey through the varied costumes exquisite textiles handcrafted ornaments curiously shaped vessels and containers musical instruments arms and armour conveyances and many such articles of everyday use. These articles of everyday use are corroborated with the descriptions left by foreign travellers passing through western India at that time. It explores contemporary lexicons and vernacular literature from this period for possible names in vogue for the articles of Material Culture. The work is richly illustrated with line drawings by the author to highlight the objects being referred to. What comes across clearly through this book is that art is the mirror of the times and as such paintings reflect the society in which they are created. A magnificent read this book will be essential for scholars and researchers of Indian painting art history Indian art arts and aesthetics Jainism visual arts South Asian history Indian history heritage studies and cultural history. It will also be a must-have for history and visual arts enthusiasts all over the world. | Jain Paintings and Material Culture of Medieval Western India 1100–1650

GBP 130.00
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British Nautical Melodramas 1820–1850 Volume II

British Nautical Melodramas 1820–1850 Volume II

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas reigned supreme on London stages entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama with the possible exception of plays by Byron Shelley and Wordsworth remains all but invisible. Until recently melodramatic plays written and performed during this gap received little scholarly attention but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class gender and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum. The plays in included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from the original documents and includes an author biography a headnote about the play itself full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial naval political and social history relevant to the plays’ nautical themes as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history melodrama generally and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices — acting audiences staging lighting special effects — are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors theatres stage sets playbills costumes and locales have been compiled to aid study further. The appendices include maps of Britain Europe and the East and West Indies. | British Nautical Melodramas 1820–1850 Volume II

GBP 115.00
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