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Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England D. McInnis

Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England By D. McInnis

Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England by D. McInnis


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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.

Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England Summary

Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England by D. McInnis

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.

Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England Reviews

McInnis provides an important new insight into how travel was regarded in the early modern period... Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England is a ground-breaking study that will appeal to students and academics alike. Frank Swannack, Parergon

About D. McInnis

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.

Table of Contents

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-Evremond, Dryden and the Ocular Dimension of Travel Old Genres, New Worlds: Behn Domesticates the Exotic Conclusion Works Cited Index

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NLS9781349442218
9781349442218
1349442216
Mind-Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England by D. McInnis
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-01-01
236
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