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Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine) by Martin Willis is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine) about?
This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Performances include demonstrations of technologies, experiments that look like theatre, theatre that looks like science, tourist representations and natural history film-making. Its key aim is to open debate on how scientific activity, both historical and contemporary, might be understood in the context of performance studies and the imaginative acts required to stage engaging
Who reads Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martin Willis
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Macmillan UK ; Imprint Palgrave Pivot. Palgrave Macmillan UK ; Imprint Palgrave Pivot
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781137499936
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Historical Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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