This volume addresses how practices and concepts of performance contribute to the production and circulation of knowledge in German-speaking Europe between 1750 and 1850. Building on recent work in the history of science, media theory, and performance theory, the essays in this volume discuss a range of different scholarly, literary, musical, and theatrical scenes of performance and take up the question of knowledge transfers in new ways.

Sean B. Franzel, University of Missouri, Columbia Missouri, USA; Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.