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Staging Science

Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen
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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.

Author Biography:

Martin Willis is Professor of English at Cardiff University, UK. His recent books include Literature and Science (2015) and Vision, Science and Literature, 1870-1920 (2011), which won both the BSLS and the ESSE Book Prizes in 2012. He is editor of the Journal of Literature and Science and Chair of the British Society for Literature and Science.
Release date Australia
November 30th, 2015
Contributor
  • Edited by Martin Willis
Pages
140
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations
2 Illustrations, color; XI, 140 p. 2 illus. in color.
Dimensions
148x210x14
ISBN-13
9781137499936
Product ID
24585468

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