Mind-travelling and voyage drama in early modern England / David McInnis.

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-E´vremond, Dryden and the ocular dimension of travel -- Davenant and the effects of perspectival scenery on mind-travelling -- Sightseeing and morality in Saint E´vremond'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.