List of illustrations; Notes on the contributors; 1. Introduction: the
project of prose and early modern literary studies Roland Greene and
Elizabeth Fowler; 2. Cannibal, cartographer, soldier, spy: the peirai of
Mendes Pinto's Peregrinação Ronald W. Sousa; 3. 'niu ureiting': the prose
of language reform in the English Renaissance Paula Blank; 4. Relations of
prose: knights errant in the archives of early modern Italy Stephanie H.
Jed; 5. Opening gates and stopping hedges: Grafton, Stow and the politics
of Elizabethan history writing David Scott Kastan; 6. The subject of
America: history and alterity in Montaigne's 'Des Coches' Timothy Hampton;
7. Anatomizing the commonwealth: language, politics and the Elizabethan
social order William H. Sherman; 8. From polemical prose to the Red Bull:
the Swetnam controversy in women-voiced pamphlets and the public theatre
Ann Rosalind Jones; 9. Bacon's New Atlantis and the laboratory of prose Amy
Boesky; 10. History, law and the eyewitness: protocols of authority in
Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva
España Rolena Adorno; 11. Fictions of immanence, fictions of embassy Roland
Greene; Index.
