Table of Contents:
  • Voyage drama
  • Lost plays
  • Vicarious travel
  • The scholarship of sightseeing
  • The wings of active thought
  • Instructions for travel, or ars apodemica
  • Mind travelling
  • The imagination and ideal presence
  • Travelling at the theatre
  • 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
  • Morals, manners, and imagination: Jonson and Heywood
  • Jonson's moral imperative
  • Heywood and travel as a fantasy of escape
  • Staging travel in Heywood's plays
  • 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"
  • 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
  • Old genres, new worlds: Behn domesticates the exotic
  • Virginian customs and culture in the widow ranter
  • Women, marriage, and slaves
  • A domestic tragedy in the new world.