On flinching : theatricality and scientific looking from Darwin to shell shock / Tiffany Watt Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watt Smith, Tiffany, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions (Philosophy).

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Darwin, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the end of the 19th century is often associated with the rise of objectivity and its ideal of a restrained observer, scientific experiments continued to create emotional, even theatrical, relationships between scientist and his subject. 'On Flinching' focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate andgestured looking in the laboratory and beyond.

Contents:

Cover; On Flinching; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Playing at Looking, Playing at Being Seen; 1 Darwin's Flinch; 2 Monkey F Startled; 3 Henry Head's Wince; 4 A Convalescent Recoils; Afterword: A Report to the Academy; Appendix Transcription of Ferrier's Notebooks Regarding Experiment F; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-100435-9