DAVID HAWKES is associate professor of English at Lehigh University, USA.

'An astonishing thesis which Hawkes presents with an astonishing boldness' Renaissance Quarterly

• Introduction: Selling the Soul: Aristotle, J.L. Austin and Jacques Derrida Faust and Witchcraft: Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Johan Spies's Faust-book Faust on Stage: Theatricality, Marlowe, Greene and the Puppet-plays Faust and Alienation: Milton and the Manichees Faust and Don Juan: Feminism, Calderon, de Molina, Moliere, Byron and George Sand Faust and Enlightenment: Marx, Hegel, Goethe and the Alchemy of Capital Modernist Faust: Spengler, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Wilde and Thomas Mann Faust and Globalization: Magic in the Postcolonial World, Salman Rushdie and Ngugi Wa' Thiongo