Part I. Introduction. Writing the Stuart Restoration : political time, cultural time, and literary periodicity / Matthew C. Augustine and Steven N. Zwicker
Part II. Fashioning the Restoration. The theatre of politics and the politics of theatre / David Francis Taylor
Restoration panegyric / David Alff
Acts of indemnity and oblivion : 'this excellent art of forgetfulness' / Edward Holberton
Remembering the civil wars / Philip Connell
Restoration life-writing and the arts of assembly / Kate Bennett
c.22-3 April 1661, &c; or, the diary method of Restoration sovereignty / Michael Mascuch
Part III. The institutions of literary culture. Plays and players : playhouses and playgoers / Robert D. Hume
Celebrity and the Restoration actress / Julia H. Fawcett
Patronage / Richard A. McCabe
Censorship and the regulation of the press, 1660-95 / John Barnard
Authorship and the book trade / Margaret J. M. Ezell
Scribal culture and literary sociability : Andrew Marvell and Sir George Etherege in manuscript / Martin Dzelzainis
Literary criticism of the Restoration / Michael Gavin
Part IV. Writers at the centre. 'For the bays designed' : Waller, Cowley, Philips / Gillian Wright
Dryden and Congreve (and Milton and Jonson) / Tom Lockwood
Cleveland's ghosts : Butler, Marvell, and Restoration satire / James Loxley
Imagining it was otherwise : Cavendish and Milton / Erin Murphy
'Voice made up of harmony' : Rochester and Behn / Katherine Mannheimer
True comedy? Etherege, Wycherley, Shadwell / David Roberts
Grace abounding : Baxter and Bunyan / David Parry
The experimental theatre of Lee and Otway / Blair Hoxby
The power of letters : John Locke and Lady Damaris Masham / Nigel Smith
Part V. Bodies politic. The body politic in the literary imagination / Niall Allsopp
From the body politic to biopolitics / Thomas A. King
Scandalous bodies in the Restoration / Laura J. Rosenthal
Part VI. Restoration spiritualities. Negotiating nonconformity : arts and animadversions / Elizabeth Sauer
Women, prayer, and prophecy / Tessie Prakas
Catholic writing in the Restoration : mission, tradition, opposition / Alison Shell
Part VII. Philosophy and natural science. The royal society and literate culture / Mordechai Feingold
Restoration science and literary representation in a global context / Helen Thompson
'Affections of matter' : empirical description in early modern natural philosophy / Claire Preston
Part VIII. Border crossings. Traffic with the ancients / Henry Power
Restoration parody and plagiarism / Robert Phiddian
Imitation and admiration, fear and loathing : France in the English imagination / Line Cottegnies
Stuart Britannia and the worlding of empire / Rajani Sudan
Part IX. ''Tis well an old age is out' : Restoration endings. Affect and uncertainty : writing the glorious revolution / Christopher D'Addario
Jacobite literatures, 1688-1702 / Paul K. Monod
Why did the Restoration end? / Paul Davis.
