The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science. It analyzes eighteenth-century theatrical representations of science in order to demonstrate how experimental natural philosophy was itself a kind of performing art that was shaped by a wider culture of spectacle in the Enlightenment.
The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science. It analyzes eighteenth-century theatrical representations of science in order to demonstrate how experimental natural philosophy was itself a kind of performing art that was shaped by a wider culture of spectacle in the Enlightenment.
Al Coppola is Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Science as Performance; Science in Performance * Against the Virtuosi * A Matter of Concern * Prologue: "Bare Unfinish'd Histories": The Rehearsal of Natural Philosophy * Buckingham amid the Virtuosi * Bacon, Dryden, Sprat and the Labyrinth of Induction * 1. The Spectacle of Experiment and the Politics of Virtuoso Satire in the 1670s * The Modest Witness as Eager Spectator: Boyle in the Theater of Experiment * The Virtuoso Discovered: Shadwell, Hooke and the Royal Society * The Virtuoso Beyond Science: Bad Men and Bad Manners * The Virtuoso as Reactionary: D'Urfey's Madam Fickle * Virtuoso Satire and the Purification of Natural Philosophy * 2. Retraining the Virtuoso's Gaze: The Emperor of the Moon and the * Spectacles of Science and Politics * The Virtuoso's Gaze Reformed: Tory Politics and Natural Philosophy * "Hold Doting Fool, put on your Spectacles": The Show of Politics in the 1680s * Spectacle against Enthusiasm: Behn's Emperor and the Exclusion Crisis * Dryden's Albion to the Moon: Political and Theatrical Pressures in 1687 * 3. Physiology, Commerce and Comedy: Three Hours after Marriage and * A Bold Stroke for a Wife * The Virtuoso Vindicated * From the Old Physiology to the New Psychology * Soft Comedy and Whig Science * Scriblerian Lampoon as Humoral Purge * Centlivre's Humorous Circulation * 4. Harlequin Newton: Faustus Pantomimes and Public Science in the 1720s * "To Gaze Surpriz'd": The Panorama of Science, Magic and Pantomime * "Surprizing Phaenomena" and the Attraction of Popular Newtonianism * "One Wide Conflagration": The Pleasures of Harlequin Faustus * Defoe, Conjuring and the Science of the Pantomimes * The Force Field of Public Science * 5. Modest Witnesses and Eager Spectators: Engendering Enlightenment * Science * "This Woman-hood of Yours Seems to be Mightily in the Way * Appropriating Moliere's Learned Ladies * Cibber, Centlivre and The Vanishing Virtuosa * Enlightenment Periodicals and Science "for the Ladies" * Embodying the Eager Spectator * Epilogue: Rehearsing Spectacle * From Spectacles to Spectators * Reflexive Empiricism and Fielding's Spectators * Bibliography
* Introduction * Science as Performance; Science in Performance * Against the Virtuosi * A Matter of Concern * Prologue: "Bare Unfinish'd Histories": The Rehearsal of Natural Philosophy * Buckingham amid the Virtuosi * Bacon, Dryden, Sprat and the Labyrinth of Induction * 1. The Spectacle of Experiment and the Politics of Virtuoso Satire in the 1670s * The Modest Witness as Eager Spectator: Boyle in the Theater of Experiment * The Virtuoso Discovered: Shadwell, Hooke and the Royal Society * The Virtuoso Beyond Science: Bad Men and Bad Manners * The Virtuoso as Reactionary: D'Urfey's Madam Fickle * Virtuoso Satire and the Purification of Natural Philosophy * 2. Retraining the Virtuoso's Gaze: The Emperor of the Moon and the * Spectacles of Science and Politics * The Virtuoso's Gaze Reformed: Tory Politics and Natural Philosophy * "Hold Doting Fool, put on your Spectacles": The Show of Politics in the 1680s * Spectacle against Enthusiasm: Behn's Emperor and the Exclusion Crisis * Dryden's Albion to the Moon: Political and Theatrical Pressures in 1687 * 3. Physiology, Commerce and Comedy: Three Hours after Marriage and * A Bold Stroke for a Wife * The Virtuoso Vindicated * From the Old Physiology to the New Psychology * Soft Comedy and Whig Science * Scriblerian Lampoon as Humoral Purge * Centlivre's Humorous Circulation * 4. Harlequin Newton: Faustus Pantomimes and Public Science in the 1720s * "To Gaze Surpriz'd": The Panorama of Science, Magic and Pantomime * "Surprizing Phaenomena" and the Attraction of Popular Newtonianism * "One Wide Conflagration": The Pleasures of Harlequin Faustus * Defoe, Conjuring and the Science of the Pantomimes * The Force Field of Public Science * 5. Modest Witnesses and Eager Spectators: Engendering Enlightenment * Science * "This Woman-hood of Yours Seems to be Mightily in the Way * Appropriating Moliere's Learned Ladies * Cibber, Centlivre and The Vanishing Virtuosa * Enlightenment Periodicals and Science "for the Ladies" * Embodying the Eager Spectator * Epilogue: Rehearsing Spectacle * From Spectacles to Spectators * Reflexive Empiricism and Fielding's Spectators * Bibliography
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