The Nervous Stage by Matthew Wilson Smith (.ePUB)
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The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre by Matthew Wilson Smith
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Overview: Nineteenth-century investigations into the nervous system produced extraordinary discoveries that changed ways of thinking far beyond the scientific community. Over the course of the century, scientists began to conceive of the subject not principally as soul, mind, or even brain, but instead as a complex of organically interacting mechanisms, many of them operating more or less autonomously and unconsciously. Meanwhile, theatrical works of the time by Shelley, Wagner, Dickens, Buchner, Zola, and Strindberg, sought to play directly on the nerves of the spectators through non-representational means, comprising a coherent genre Matthew Wilson Smith has dubbed the “theaters of sensation.”
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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