On Flinching. Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
: A - Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Drama
- Output identifier
- 2464
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198700937
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the first to investigate the emotional styles of scientific observers between 1860-1920, when experimental practices are usually thought to have taken an objective turn. It shows how biologists, neurologists and psychologists enlisted theatrical practices to create new scientific knowledge about human emotion. The project required the analysis of a considerable body of materials, from scientific archives (laboratory notebooks, hospital records, equipment) and from the history of theatre-going in the age of sensation theatre, naturalistic drama and early film (scripts, written descriptions, letters, photographs). The research was undergirded by a decade of practical experience as a theatre-maker.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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