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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.
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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.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 278
- Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9780190269715
- ISBN-10: 0190269715
- Artikelnr.: 47863862
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 278
- Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9780190269715
- ISBN-10: 0190269715
- Artikelnr.: 47863862
Al Coppola is Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
* 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
* 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
* 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