The aspects of Dutch Literature discussed in the papers presented in this volume are: The Status of Dutch Literature in the 16th and 17th Centuries; Europe in the 18th Century; Possibilities and Dangers of Aestheticism in Two Novels of Louis Couperus; Foreign Models for the Postwar Poetic Development in the Low Countries; The Bind of Double Metonymy; A Mirror for Translators; The Indonesian Connection; Expressionism and New Objectivity; The Second World War in Dutch and German Literature; Lucebert versus Breytenbach; Leon de Winter and Perter Handke: Varieties of Postmodernism; Postmodern Tendencies in American and Dutch Poetry; Dutch Literature in the World: Diagnosis and Prognosis. Co-published with the American Association for Netherlandic Studies.