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The Nervous Stage - Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre (Hardcover)
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The Nervous Stage - Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre (Hardcover)
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Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced
extraordinary discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond
the scientific community. Over the course of the century,
scientists began to conceive of the subject not principally as
soul, mind, or even brain, but instead as a complex of organically
interacting mechanisms, many of them operating more or less
autonomously and unconsciously. Meanwhile, theatrical works of the
time by Shelley, Wagner, Dickens, Buchner, Zola, and Strindberg,
sought to play directly on the nerves of the spectators through
non-representational means, comprising a coherent genre Matthew
Wilson Smith has dubbed the "theaters of sensation." The Nervous
Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the
scientific study of the nervous system, arguing that to a
significant degree, modern theater emerged out of the interaction
between these two apparently disparate fields. In six chapters, The
Nervous Stage makes three fundamental contributions to scholarship
on comparative literature, specifically in the areas of
drama/performance, cognitive literary studies, and the beginnings
of global modernism. Through a series of revisionist readings of
specific theatrical works and artists, Smith demonstrates that a
number of literary texts were deeply engaged in dialogue with the
neurological sciences of their period, and that an appreciation of
this dialogue helps us better to understand their significance for
their own historical period as well as for our own. Furthermore, it
argues that a number of lesser-known works-ranging from certain
"closet dramas" such as Shelley's The Cenci to popular melodramas
such as Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight-had much greater
cultural significance than has been acknowledged heretofore.
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