Introduction: history, language, and the politics of English Renaissance prose / Neil Rhodes
Sore and strong prose of the English Bible / Gerald Hammond
Tyrant being slain: afterlives of More's History of King Richard III / Daniel Kinney
"Take away preaching, and take away salvation": Hugh Latimer, Protestantism, and prose style / N.H. Keeble
Richard Hooker's discourse and the deception of posterity / P. G. Stanwood
Sidney's Arcadian poetics: a medicine of cherries and the philosophy of cavaliers / Claire Preston.

Strang[e] constructions of Mary Wroth's Urania: Arcadian romance and the public realm / Paul Salzman
Virgins of the world and feasts of the family: sex and the social order in two renaissance utopias / Susan Bruce
"A Knowledge Broken": Francis Bacon's aphoristic style and the crisis of scholastic and humanist knowledge-systems / Stephen Clucas
Shapeless elegance: Robert Burton's anatomy of knowledge / Jonathan Sawday
Milton and the limits of Ciceronian rhetoric / Martin Dzelzainis.

Powers of the beast: Gerrard Winstanley and visionary prose of the English Revolution / David Loewenstein
In the land of moles and pismires: Thomas Browne's antiquarian writings / Graham Parry
Bunyan's Grace Abounding and the dynamics of restoration nonconformity / Thomas N. Corns.