Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England [electronic resource] /
McInnis, D.author.
Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing.
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Voyage drama; Lost plays; Vicarious travel; The scholarship of sightseeing; 1 The Wings of Active Thought; Instructions for travel, or ars apodemica; Mind-travelling; The imagination and ideal presence; Travelling at the theatre; 2 Marlovian Models of Voyage Drama; The 'will to travel' in Marlovian drama; The playwright's travels in 'map and card'; Acting on knowledge: Faustus's journey 'to prove cosmography'; Fortunatus and the wishing hat; 3 Morals, Manners, and Imagination: Jonson and Heywood; Jonson's moral imperative
Heywood and travel as a fantasy of escapeStaging travel in Heywood's plays; 4 Therapeutic Travel in Richard Brome's The Antipodes; Jonsonian psychology and drama; Disdain for the familiar; Peregrine as mind-travelling reader; The stars change, the mind remains the same; 'Mandeville madness'; 5 Davenant, Saint-Évremond, Dryden, and the Ocular Dimension of Travel; Davenant and the effects of perspectival scenery on mind-travelling; Sightseeing and morality in Saint Évremond's Sir Politick Would-be; Dryden's aesthetics and the theatre-as-prospective-glass
6 Old Genres, New Worlds: Behn Domesticates the ExoticVirginian customs and culture in The Widow Ranter; Women, marriage, and slaves; A domestic tragedy in the New World; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing.
Literature, Modern.
European literature.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
America—Literatures.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
European Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.