Format:
XII, 236 S.
ISBN:
9781137035356
Series Statement:
Early modern literature in history
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis S. 214- 229
,
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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Drama
;
Reise
;
Geschichte 1550-1650
