"...they have given teachers and scholars an attractive and useful collection; this reviewer knows of no closely parallel volume. Recommended for graduate and research collections." E.D. Hill, Choice

• 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.

"...they have given teachers and scholars an attractive and useful collection; this reviewer knows of no closely parallel volume. Recommended for graduate and research collections." E.D. Hill, Choice

• 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.

"...they have given teachers and scholars an attractive and useful collection; this reviewer knows of no closely parallel volume. Recommended for graduate and research collections." E.D. Hill, Choice

• 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.