Mind-travelling and voyage drama in early modern England /
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmilland,
2013.
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| Series: | Early modern literature in history (Palgrave (Firm))
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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.