Contents: Jürgen Pieters: General Introduction - Ann Rigney: Literature and the Longing for History - Nadia Lie: The Author as Hymen. Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina between Stephen Gilman and Michel Foucault - Sonja Laden: Greenblattian Self-Fashioning and the Construction of 'Literary History' - Paul Franssen: «With all my Heart»: the Pound of Flesh and the Execution of Justice - Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen: Mystical Bodies. King Lear and the Discourse of Possession - David Schalkwyk: «Speaking Wittgenstein all along»: Stephen Greenblatt and the Philosophical Contexts of the New Historicism - Jonathan Gil Harris: Historicizing Greenblatt's «Containment»: the Cold War, Functionalism, and the Origins of Social Pathology - Benjamin Biebuyck: Greenblatt, Girard, and the Recontextualisation of Aesthetic Experience, or: What does Aesthetic Practice have to do with Cultural Theories? - Koenraad Geldof: The Dialectic of Modernity and Beyond: Adorno, Foucault, Certeau, and Greenblatt in Comparison - Jan R. Veenstra: Thematising Social Energy. The 'Bal des Ardents' and the Production of the Demonic in Medieval Culture.
