Staging Science - Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Performances include demonstrations of technologies, experiments that look like theatre, theatre that looks like science, tourist representations and natural history film-making. Its key aim is to open debate on how scientific activity, both historical and contemporary, might be understood in the context of performance studies and the imaginative acts required to stage engaging performances. Scientific performances have become increasingly of interest to historians of science, literature and science scholars, and in the field of science studies. As yet, however, no work has sought to examine a range of scientific performances with the aim of interrogating and illuminating the kinds of critical and theoretical practices that might be employed to engage with them. With scientific performance likely to become ever more central to scholarly study in the next few years this volume offer a timely, and early, intervention in the existing debates, and aims, too, to be a touchstone for future work.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Pivot
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Release date:	November 2015
First published:	2016
Editors:	Martin Willis
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	140
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-49993-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	1-137-49993-1
Barcode:	9781137499936

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