Part I. Translation, education, and literary criticism. Englishing Eloquence: Sixteenth-Century Arts of Rhetoric and Poetics
All Talk and No Action? Early Modern Political Dialogue
Commonplacing and Prose Writing: William Baldwin and Robert Burton
Romance: Amadis de Gaule and John Barclay's Argenis
Montaigne and Florio
Italianate Tales: William Painter and George Pettie
Classical Translation
Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque in Early Modern England
Part II. Prose fiction. William Baldwin's Beware the Cat and Other Foolish Writing
The Adventures Passed by Master George Gascoigne: Experiments in Prose
'Turne Your Library to a Wardrope': John Lyly and Euphuism
Robert Greene
Nashe's Stuff
Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
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. Utopia and Utopianism
English Scientific Prose: Bacon, Browne, Boyle
Richard Hakluyt
Raphael Holinshed and Historical Writing
Astrology, Magic, and Witchcraft
Jest Books
Political Prose
Modes of Satire
News Writing
Part IV. Varieties of early modern prose 2: private prose. Letters
Diaries
Life Writing
Essays
Domestic Manuals and the Power of Prose
Part V. Religious Prose. Immethodical, Incoherent, Unadorned: Style and the Early Modern Bible
The Style of Authorship in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments
The Marprelate Controversy
Sermons
The Book of Common Prayer
Richard Hooker's of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie
Part VI. Major prose writers. Gabriel Harvey
John Knox, George Buchanan, and Scots Prose
Robert Burton and The Anatomy of Melancholy
'When all Things shall confesse their ashes': Science and Soul in Thomas Browne.