PART I TRANSLATION, EDUCATION, AND LITERARY CRITICISM
1. Englishing Eloquence: Sixteenth-Century Arts of Rhetoric and Poetics
2. All Talk and No Action? Early Modern Political Dialogue
3. Commonplacing and Prose Writing: William Baldwin and Robert Burton
4. Romance: Amadis de Gaule and John Barclay’s Argenis
6. Italianate Tales: William Painter and George Pettie
8. Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque in Early Modern England
9. William Baldwin’s Beware the Cat and Other Foolish Writing
10. The Adventures Passed by Master George Gascoigne: Experiments in Prose
11. ‘Turne Your Library to a Wardrope’: John Lyly and Euphuism
14. Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia
15. Topicality in Mary Wroth’s Countess of Montgomery’s Urania: Prose Romance, Masque, and Lyric
PART III VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 1: PUBLIC PROSE
17. English Scientific Prose: Bacon, Browne, Boyle
19. Raphael Holinshed and Historical Writing
20. Astrology, Magic, and Witchcraft
IAN MUNRO AND ANNE LAKE PRESCOTT
PART IV VARIETIES OF EARLY MODERN PROSE 2: PRIVATE PROSE
29. Domestic Manuals and the Power of Prose
30. Immethodical, Incoherent, Unadorned: Style and the Early Modern Bible
31. The Style of Authorship in John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments
THOMAS S. FREEMAN AND SUSANNAH BRIETZ MONTA
32. The Marprelate Controversy
35. Richard Hooker’s Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie
37. John Knox, George Buchanan, and Scots Prose
38. Robert Burton and The Anatomy of Melancholy
39. ‘When all things shall confesse their ashes’: Science and Soul in Thomas Browne