Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England

2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-44221-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McInnis, D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction The Wings of Active Thought Marlovian Models of Voyage Drama Morals, Manners, and Imagination: Jonson and Heywood Therapeutic Travel in Richard Brome's The Antipodes Davenant, Saint-Évremond, Dryden and the Ocular Dimension of Travel Old Genres, New Worlds: Behn Domesticates the Exotic Conclusion Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

DAVID MCINNIS lectures in the English and Theatre Studies programme at the University of Melbourne, Australia. With Roslyn L. Knutson, he founded and co-edits the Lost Plays Database, a source of information on the 550+ lost plays and entertainments from early modern England. He is currently preparing a critical edition of Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus (1599) for the Revels Plays series.