First published in 1998, the essays in this volume demonstrate how influential the Empire was on British culture from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Julie F. Codell, Dianne Sachko Macleod

1. Orientalism Transposed: the 'Easternization' of Britain and Interventions to Colonial Discourse. Julie F. Codell and Dianne Sachko Macleod. Part 1. Identity, Agency and Masquerade. 2. Resistance and Performance: Native Informant Discourse in the Biographies of Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda (1863-1939). Julie F. Codell. 3. About Face: Sir David Wilkie's Portrait of Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt. Emily M. Weeks. 4. Cross-Cultural Cross-Dressing: Class, Gender and Modernist Sexual Identity. Dianne Sachko Macleod. Part 2. The Aesthetics of the Colonial Gaze. 5. The Memsehib's Brush: Anglo-Indian Women and the Art of the Picturesque, 1830-1880. Romita Ray. 6. To See or Not to See: Conflicting Eyes in the Travel Art of Augustus Earle. Leonard Bell. 7. 'Beyond the Stretch of Labouring Thought Sublime': Romanticism, Post-Colonial Theory and the Transmission of Sanskrit Texts. Kathryn S. Freeman. 8. Cameron's Photographic Double Takes. Jeff Rosen. Part 3. Intercoloniality. 9. Death, Glory, Empire: Art. Barbara Groseclose. 10. Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British Medievalism in the Paintings of Mather Brown. Constance C. McPhee.