Abstract

This paper volunteers precedents for contemporary presentations of natural phenomena as tourist attractions in the stage representations of same in the late eighteenth century. It is specifically concerned with the work of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg. A connection is made with the spirit of enquiry evinced by Derbyshire’s ‘Lunar Men’ but suggests a sensibility which confounds simple notions of Enlightenment and Romanticism.

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