New literary history VOl. 40, No. 1 winter 2009

Herbert F. Tucker
Introduction

Stephen NachmNnovitch
This is play

Warren Motte
Playing in earnest

Laura Kendrick
Games medievalists play: how to make earnest of game and still enjoy it

Michael Holquist
Gambling with Kant: Faustian wagers

Doris Sommer
Schiller and company, or how Habermas incites us to play

Matthew Kaiser
The world in play: a portrait of a Victorian concept

Gary Saul Morson
Contingency, games, and wit

Marie-Laure Ryan
From playfields to fictional worlds: a second life for Ariosto

David Golumbia
Games without play

Thomas M. Malaby
Anthropology and play: the contours of playful experience