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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), considered theatrical pleasure suspect precisely because of its affective power and ability to influence social formation: ‘Nothing has gone farther in Debauching the Age than the Stage … at the End, they would have torn the House down: Our seats shook under us.’ 12 Burney’s account shows how the ‘affective sensibility of the collective becomes desired in itself’ in a ‘shared sense of the power of numbers.’ 13 12 . … by encoring the anthem with ‘repeated Huzzas.’ 14 Audience participation could reshape a text’s emotional and artistic affect, breaking the entertainment into new divisions with vociferous affirmations, or loud catcalls and hisses. When, on …
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Scientific experiments [ Politics & Society / Science ]
… ‘bears a considerable resemblance to that of the sublime, which is one of the most exquisite of all those that affect the human imagination'. 11 To survey the history of scientific progress was to experience the sense of boundless …
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