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The theater of experiment : staging natural philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain / Al Coppola.
LIBRA PN2593 .C77 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coppola, Al, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Theater.
- Literature and science.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Science in literature.
- English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--18th century--History and criticism.
- Satire, English--History and criticism.
- Satire, English.
- Literature and science--England--History--18th century.
- English drama--Restoration.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 265 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The spectacle of experiment and the politics of virtuoso satire in the 1670s
- Retraining the virtuoso's gaze: The emperor of the moon and the Spectacles of science and politics
- Physiology, commerce and comedy: Three hours after marriage and A bold stroke for a wife
- Harlequin Newton: Faustus pantomimes and public science in the 1720s
- Modest witnesses and eager spectators: engendering enlightenment science
- Epilogue: rehearsing spectacle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190269715
- 0190269715
- OCLC:
- 936687353
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