General Introduction

Jurgen Pieters

Literature and the Longing for History

Ann Rigney

The Author as Hymen. Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina between Stephen Gilman and Michel Foucault

Nadia Lie

Greenblattian Self-Fashioning and the Construction of `Literary History'

Sonja Laden

``With all my Heart'': the Pound of Flesh and the Execution of Justice

Paul Franssen

Mystical Bodies. King Lear and the Discourse of Possession

Jan Frans Van Dijkhuizen

``Speaking Wittgenstein all along'': Stephen Greenblatt and the Philosophical Contexts of the New Historicism

David Schalkwyk

Historicizing Greenblatt's ``Containment'': the Cold War, Functionalism, and the Origins of Social Pathology

Jonathan Gil Harris

Greenblatt, Girard, and the Recontextualisation of Aesthetic Experience, or: What does Aesthetic Practice have to do with Cultural Theories?

Benjamin Biebuyck

The Dialectic of Modernity and Beyond: Adorno, Foucault, Certeau, and Greenblatt in Comparison

Koenraad Geldof

Thematising Social Energy. The `Bal des Ardents' and the Production of the Demonic in Medieval Culture

Jan R. Veenstra

Notes on Contributors