The Wages of Satire / Harry Levin -- Chaucer's "New Men" and the Good of Literature in the Canterbury Tales / Anne Middleton -- Improvisation and Power / Stephen J. Greenblatt -- "To Entrap the Wisest": A Reading of The Merchant of Venice / René Girard -- A Social History of Fact and Fiction: Authorial Disavowal in the Early English Novel / Lennard J. Davis -- Text, Ideology, Realism / Terry Eagleton -- Ad/d Feminam: Women, Literature, and Society / Catharine R. Stimpson.