Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery

1. Introduction: “Faln Systemes” and “Dead Chimæras”
Judy A. Hayden

2. Heliocentrism, Plurality of Worlds and Ethics: Anton Francesco Doni and Giordano Bruno
Pietro Daniel Omodeo

3. Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon
David Cressy

4. An English Renaissance Astronomy Club? Shakespeare, Observation and the Cosmos
David H. Levy, Judy A. Hayden

5. To the Moon: Discovering the Comic in the Cosmic on the Early Modern English Stage
Gabrielle Sugar

6. Sailing to the Moon: Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin and the First Science Fiction
Catherine Gimelli Martin

7. The Royal Society, Collective Vision and Samuel Butler’s “The Elephant in the Moon”
J. Ereck Jarvis

8. “Cinthia’s Hero”: Edward Howard’s The Six days Adventure, or the New Utopia

Judy A. Hayden

9. “A new discovery of a new world”: The Moon and America in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century European Literature
Brycchan Carey

10. Astronomy, Prophecy and Imposture in Tyssot de Patot’s Voyages et avantures de Jaques Massé

Daniel J. Worden

Avainsanat: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, European Literature, Literary History