Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Present State of Affairs; N.White - BEFORE MODERNITY - The Heirs of Amphitryon: Social Fathers and Natural Fathers; M.Maclean - Adultery and Killing in La Mort le roi Artu; S.Kay - Adultery on Trial: Martin Guerre and His Wife: From Judge's Tale to the Screen; E.Guild - EARLY MODERN - Notorious Women: Marriage and the Novel in Crisis in France 1690-1710; J.Dejean - 'Let Other Pens Dwell on Guilt and Misery': Adultery in Jane Austen; C.Lamont - THE HIGH AGE OF ADULTERY: CONTEXTS - Legitimation and Irony in Tolstoy and Fontane; F.Gordon - Adultery and the Exchange Economy; J.Labanyi - The Adulteress's Children; N.Segal -Carnal Knowledge in French Naturalist Fiction; N.White - Patriarchal Ideology and the Novel of Adultery; D.A.Williams - THE HIGH AGE OF ADULTERY: TEXTS - No Fairy-Tale: the Story of Marriage in Trollope's He Knew He Was Right; M.Hamer - Machado de Assis and the Beloved Reader: Squatters in the Text; M.M.Lisboa - The Need for Zeal and the Dangers of Jealousy: Identity and Legitimacy in La Regenta; A.Sinclair - FILMS AND FICTIONS - No Second Chances: Fiction and Adultery in Vertigo; M.Wood - The Fatal Attraction of The Piano; N.Segal - Dissolving Adultery: Domesticity and Obscenity in The Game; J.Smith - Index