Introduction, Andrew Hadfield Part 1: 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, Jenny Richards 4. Romance: Amadis de Gaul and William Barclay's Argenis, Helen Moore 5. Montaigne and Florio, Peter Mack 6. Italianate Tales: William Painter and George Peele, Neil Rhodes 7. Classical translation, Gordon Braden 8.
Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque in Early Modern England, Alex Samson Part 2: Prose Fiction 9. William Baldwin's Beware the Cat and Other Foolish Writing, Tom Betteridge 10. The Adventures Passed by Master George Gascoigne: Experiments in Prose, Gillian Austen 11. 'Turne Your Library to a Wardrobe': John Lyly and Euphuism, Katharine Wilson 12. Robert Greene, Robert Maslen 13. Thomas Nashe, 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 3: 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 and travel writing, Nandini Das 19. Raphael Holinshed and historical Writing, Bart Van Es 20. Astrology, magic, and witchcraft, Peter Maxwell-Stuart 21. Jest books, Anne Lake Prescott and Ian Munro 22. Political Prose, Nicolas McDowell 23. Polemic/Satire, Dermot Cavanagh 24.
News Writing, Joad Raymond Part 4: Varieties of Early Modern Prose 2: Private Prose 25. Letters, Alan Stewart 26. Diaries, Adam Smyth 27. Life writing, Danielle Clark 28. Essays, Paul Salzman 29. Domestic conduct books, Catherine Richardson Section 5: 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, Tom Freeman and Susannah Monta 32.
The Marpelate Controversy, Joseph Black 33. Sermons, Peter McCullough 34. The Book of Common Prayer, Daniel Swift Part 6: Major Prose Writers 35. Gabriel Harvey, Henry Woudhuysen 36. Richard Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity , Rudolph Almasy 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.