CONTENTS

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction

ANDREW HADFIELD

PART I TRANSLATION, EDUCATION, AND LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Englishing Eloquence: Sixteenth-Century Arts of Rhetoric and Poetics

CATHERINE NICHOLSON

2. All Talk and No Action? Early Modern Political Dialogue

CATHY SHRANK

3. Commonplacing and Prose Writing: William Baldwin and Robert Burton

JENNIFER RICHARDS

4. Romance: Amadis de Gaule and John Barclay’s Argenis

HELEN MOORE

5. Montaigne and Florio

PETER MACK

6. Italianate Tales: William Painter and George Pettie

NEIL RHODES

7. Classical Translation

GORDON BRADEN

8. Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque in Early Modern England

ALEXANDER SAMSON

PART II PROSE FICTION

9. William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat and Other Foolish Writing

THOMAS BETTERIDGE

10. The Adventures Passed by Master George Gascoigne: Experiments in Prose

GILLIAN AUSTEN

11. ‘Turne Your Library to a Wardrope’: John Lyly and Euphuism

KATHARINE WILSON

12. Robert Greene

R. W. MASLEN

13. Nashe’s Stuff

JASON SCOTT-WARREN

14. Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia

GAVIN ALEXANDER

15. Topicality in Mary Wroth’s Countess of Montgomery’s Urania: Prose Romance, Masque, and Lyric

MARY ELLEN LAMB

PART III VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 1: PUBLIC PROSE

16. Utopia and Utopianism

ROBERT APPELBAUM

17. English Scientific Prose: Bacon, Browne, Boyle

CLAIRE PRESTON

18. Richard Hakluyt

NANDINI DAS

19. Raphael Holinshed and Historical Writing

BART VAN ES

20. Astrology, Magic, and Witchcraft

P. G. MAXWELL-STUART

21. Jest Books

IAN MUNRO AND ANNE LAKE PRESCOTT

22. Political Prose

NICHOLAS MCDOWELL

23. Modes of Satire

DERMOT CAVANAGH

24. News Writing

JOAD RAYMOND

PART IV VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 2: PRIVATE PROSE

25. Letters

ALAN STEWART

26. Diaries

ADAM SMYTH

27. Life Writing

DANIELLE CLARKE

28. Essays

PAUL SALZMAN

29. Domestic Manuals and the Power of Prose

CATHERINE RICHARDSON

PART V RELIGIOUS PROSE

30. Immethodical, Incoherent, Unadorned: Style and the Early Modern Bible

KEVIN KILLEEN

31. The Style of Authorship in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments

THOMAS S. FREEMAN AND SUSANNAH BRIETZ MONTA

32. The Marprelate Controversy

JOSEPH L. BLACK

33. Sermons

PETER MCCULLOUGH

34. The Book of Common Prayer

DANIEL SWIFT

35. Richard Hooker’s Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie

RUDOLPH P. ALMASY

PART VI MAJOR PROSE WRITERS

36. Gabriel Harvey

H. R. WOUDHUYSEN

37. John Knox, George Buchanan, and Scots Prose

CAROLINE ERSKINE

38. Robert Burton and The Anatomy of Melancholy

ANGUS GOWLAND

39. ‘When all things shall confesse their ashes’: Science and Soul in Thomas Browne

KEVIN KILLEEN

Bibliography

Index