Performing knowledge, 1750-1850 / edited by Mary Helen Dupree and Sean B. Franzel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dupree, Mary Helen, 1974- editor.

Franzel, Sean, editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 18.

Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies, 1861-8030 ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Germany--History--19th century.

Performing arts.

Knowledge, Theory of--Germany--History--19th century.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways. Social and political transformations, such as the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, went hand in hand with in new ways of viewing, sensing, and experiencing what was perceived to be a rapidly changing world. This volume brings together a range of essays that explore the performance of knowledge in the period from 1750 to 1850, in the broadest possible sense. The essays explore a wide variety of literary, theatrical, and scientific events staged during this period, including scientific demonstrations, philosophical lectures, theatrical performances, stage design, botany primers, musical publications, staged Schiller memorials, acoustic performances, and literary declamations. These events served as vital conduits for the larger process of generating, differentiating, and circulating knowledge. By unpacking the significance of performance and performativity for the creation and circulation of knowledge in Germany during this period, the volume makes an important contribution to interdisciplinary German cultural studies, performance studies, and the history of knowledge.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Introduction: Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850 / Dupree, Mary Helen / Franzel, Sean

Part One: Sounds and Stages

The Making of Acoustics around 1800, or How to Do Science with Words / Tkaczyk, Viktoria

The Fate of Rhetoric in the "Long" Eighteenth Century / Till, Dietmar

Pity Play: Sympathy and Spectatorship in Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments / Wiggins, Ellwood

The Sound of Glass: Transparency and Danger / Wolf, Rebecca

Early Schiller Memorials (1805-1808) and the Performance of Literary Knowledge / Dupree, Mary Helen

Modern Architecture Takes the Stage: Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Architectural Spectacles / Arburg, Hans-Georg von

Part Two: Pedagogies and Publics

Performance and Play: Lichtenberg's Lectures on Experimental Physics / Baldwin, Claire

Kant on the Logic of Anthropology and the Ethics of Disciplinarity / Wellmon, Chad

Staging the Knowledge of Plants: Goethe's Elegy "The Metamorphosis of Plants" / Bies, Michael

Playing to the Public: Performing Politics in Heinrich von Kleist / Landgraf, Edgar

Constructions of the Present and the Philosophy of History in the Lecture Form / Franzel, Sean

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Forms of Musical Knowledge: The Case of the Piano / Daub, Adrian

Afterword: The Audience, the Public, and the Improvisator Maximilian Langenschwarz / Esterhammer, Angela

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110421064

3110421062

9783110421125

3110421127

OCLC:

918623360