Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin: Out of the Natural Order
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 2002
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin: Out of the Natural Order
- Author
- Jane R Goodall
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415243777
- ISBN 13
- 9780415243773
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1.001 pounds
- Dimensions
- 5.75 inches width by 8.5 inches height by 0.75 inches depth
Performance and Evolution in the Age of Darwin reveals the ways in which the major themes of evolution were taken up in the performing arts during Darwin's adult lifetime and in the generation after his death.
The period 1830-1900 was the formative period for evolutionary ideas. While scientists and theorists investigated the law and order of nature, show business was more concerned with what was out of the natural order. Missing links and throwbacks, freak taxonomies and exotic races were favourite subject matter for the burgeoning variety theatre movement. Focusing on popular theatre forms in London, New York and Paris, Jane Goodall shows how they were interwoven with the developing debate about human evolution.
With this book, Goodall contributes an important new angle to the debates surrounding the history of evolution. She reveals that, far from creating widespread culture shock, Darwinian theory tapped into some of the long-standing themes of popular performance and was a source for diverse and sometimes hilarious explorations.
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About the Author
Jane R. Goodall is currently Director of Research in the College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney where she specialises in the development of cross-disciplinary research. She is the author of Artaud and the Gnostic Drama (1994).
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