The project of prose in early modern Europe and the New World

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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 Peregrinacao 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 Diaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana Rolena Adorno 11. Fictions of immanence, fictions of embassy Roland Greene Index.

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