Teaching early modern English prose

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Margaret W. Ferguson / Susannah Brietz Monta

Part I. Perspectives on Prose

What Is Early Modern Nonfictional Prose? / Ronald Corthell

Cultivating the Commons: Early Modern Rhetoric, Pamphlet Writing, and the Undergraduate Reader / Lauryn S. Mayer

Desiring Styles: Renaissance Prose Styles and Teaching by Imitation / Mary Moore

Part II. Kinds of Prose

Religious Persuasions: Teaching the Early Modern Sermon / Lori Anne Ferrell

Early Modern Prose and the Uses of the New World / Peter C. Herman

Teaching with Passions; or, Bringing Martyrologies into the Classroom / Susannah Brietz Monta

Dedicated Thought: Montaigne, Bacon, and the English Renaissance Essay / Kate Lilley

Teaching Early Modern Autobiographies and Life Writings / Mary Ellen Lamb

Reading Tudor Chronicles / Christopher Ivic

Quaker Writing in the Seventeenth Century / Roger E. Moore

A Voyage on a Dangerous Sea: Marriage as Heroism in Early Modern English Prose / Mary Beth Rose

Teaching Early Modern Letters / Gary Schneider

Teaching Gascoigne, Deloney, and the Emergence of the English Novel / Eric Sterling

Part III. Teaching Selected Authors

Reforming the Greek Tragic Hero: Narrative Trickery and Gender Reversal in Sidney's Old Arcadia / Donald Stump

Speech Made Visible: The Writings of Queen Elizabeth I / Leah S. Marcus

Thomas Nashe: Cornucopias and Gallimaufries of Prose / Margaret W. Ferguson

Community and Context in Richard Hooker's Prose / P. G. Stanwood

"Amorous Metaphors": John Donne's Prose / Elizabeth Hodgson

The Long and Winding Road: Teaching Lady Mary Wrath's Urania / Sheila T. Cavanagh

Francis Bacon's Experimental Writing / Deborah E. Harkness

Discovering Milton in His Prose / Stephen M. Fallon

Stand-Up Browne: Religio Medici in the Classroom / Claire Preston

Mastering the Monster Text: Teaching Hobbes's Leviathan / Robert E. Stillman

"On Thursday Giant Despair Beats His Prisoners": Teaching Bunyan in an Unsympathetic Age / Thomas Corns

Part IV. Crossings and Pairings

Teaching Lyly's Euphuism through William Harrison's The Description of England: History, Parody, and Dialogic Form / Terry Reilly

Literary Figures: Lodge's Rosalynd in the Undergraduate Classroom / Catherine R. Eskin

Infectious Knowledge: Teaching the Educational Tracts of John Milton and Mary Astell / Erin Murphy

Translation, Nationalism, and Imperialism: Teaching Aphra Behn's "Essay on Translated Prose" and A Discovery of New Worlds / Deborah Uman

Teaching the Early Modern Bible, Fully and Perfectly / Gregory Kneidel

Part V. Resources

Selected Resources for Teachers / Margaret W. Ferguson / Susannah Brietz Monta / Magdalena Nerio / Genevieve Pearson / Vanessa Rapatz

Print Resources: Anthologies including Substantial Selections of Prose Writings

Electronic Resources

Notes on Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Selected Resources