Faustus and the promises of the new science, c. 1580 - 1730: from the chapbooks to Harlequin Faustus
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | VI, 208 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780754661337 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures
vii
Acknowledgements
viii
1
Introduction: Radical Explorations of Faustus
1
Historical Faustus Figures
1
New Ideas about Human Nature
6
Scientific Revolutions and the Nature of Change
14
The Human Dimension of the New Science
18
The Mythic Dimension of the Faustus Legend
21
2
The Insatiable Speculator: The Hero of the Faust Books
27
The Emergence of the Faust Books
28
What s in the Name Faustus ?
31
The Ambiguous Theology of the Faust Books
33
The Structure of the Cautionary Tale
35
The Faust Books Attitude towards Magic
38
The Voice of Rationality
39
Faustus, the Speculator
41
The Significance of Formae
Coniurationurrì
45
The Appearance of Mephostophi
les
47
The Pact with the Devil
51
The Gnostic Roots of the Faust Book
52
The Origin of the World
55
The Journey through Hell
61
The Journey through the Heavens
65
The Death of Faustus
71
3
The Devil of Empiricism: Marlowe s Doctor Faustus
75
Spectacles of Good and Evil
76
What Does it Mean to Have a Soul?
79
The Speculations of Marlowe s Faustus
83
The Journey through the Heavens
87
Pseudo-sciences and the Quest for New Knowledge
90
The Hell of Doctor Faustus
96
The Value of Human Existence
100
The Magic of Doctor Faustus
102
Conclusion
106
4
The Alternative Worlds of the New Science: Burton, Milton
and Fontenelle
111
Thomas Browne s Self-definition as a Scientist
115
vi Faustus
and the Promises of the New Science
Knowledge and the Inner Light: Milton s Paradise Lost
121
Order and Creativity in Paradise Lost
122
Milton s Spiritual Speculations
134
The Cosmic Machinery of Fontenelle s Scientific Romance
137
The Alternative Worlds of the Copernican Cosmos
142
Conclusion
147
5
Comedies, Farces and Harlequin Doctor Faustus
151
A History of the Devil
152
Science on the Restoration Stage: Shadwell s Virtuoso
159
William Mountfort s Farcical Faustus
166
Harlequin in Hell:
Evaristo Gherardi
and the Conventions of
Commedia dell Arte
171
Harlequin Faustus
176
Conclusion
180
Conclusion
183
Bibliography
187
Index
205
Having identified the literary origins of the Faustus legend in the German
Faust Book
(1587)
and its English translation
(1592),
this book argues that
these works transformed a simple rogue s tale into an incisive study of
morality and beliefs. The chapbooks
contrastive
portrayal of an imaginary
experience of hell and a pseudo-scientific journey through the cosmos is
interpreted as an unconventional approach to the questions of an inquiring
mind. This study offers the first analysis of the chapbooks as literary works
in their own right, as opposed to simply being sources for Christopher
Marlowe s play. It is also the first study to describe the Faustus typology as
a vehicle by which uncompromising thinkers of early modernity and the
Enlightenment questioned contemporary views about religion, morality and
the possibility of experiencing transcendence.
While arguing that Marlowe s Doctor Faustus primarily examines the
imaginary foundations of religious rules and standards, the author suggests
■
that the
1616
version of the play revived the chapbooks ^accouTfts of
spiritual ravishment and intellectual ecstasy. Imaginary explorations of
cosmic space became popular in the
seventeentbrťťntury
and gave rise to
strongly diverging works of literature, embracing the arcane spirituality of
Milton s Paradise Lost as well as Fontenelle s sociable but essentially secular
fantasy of cosmic travel. TJjk book shows that contemporary responses to
early modern science .alsr? tended to address the most urgent concerns of the
Faustus legend, explaining the re-emergence of the typology in Mountfort s
late seyefiteenth-century farcical Faustus play and early eighteenth-century
harlequinades about Doctor Faustus.
Other Ashgate Titles of Interest
Placing the Plays of Christopher Marlowe
Fresh Cultural Contexts
Edited by Sara Munson Deats and Robert A. Logan
Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany
Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time
Gerhild
Scholz
Williams
Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
Edited by Juliet Cummins and David Burchell
The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
From Milton to Rochester
Nancy
Rosenfeld
Cover illustration: Jan van
der Staet,
Flavio
Gioia
of Amalfi Discovering the Power of the
Lodestone , Nova Reperta, Antuerpiae, 16O0(?). By permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.
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