Patricia Anne Simpson & Birgit Tautz 
Goethe Yearbook 28 

This volume’s Forum section focuses on new directions in eighteenth-century German studies, alongside articles on a diverse range of topics concerning Goethe and the literature and arts of his age.






The
Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the
Goethezeit. Volume 28 features articles on several of Goethe’s signature works (
Xenien,
Wahlverwandtschaften,
Faust), unified by their innovative approaches. It also includes a Forum section seeking to prompt discussion of new directions in eighteenth-century German studies. An essay documenting Goethe’s engagement with China and another on Goethe’s legacy in post-WWII Argentina emphasize these new directions. Other essays highlight Goethe’s inter-arts approaches (music, theater, collecting); interdisciplinary intersections of eighteenth-century literary studies with gender and social history; media theory; and renewed emphasis on materialism. The latter is the focus of a recently convened collaboration on early nineteenth-century inventories presented in this volume. The customary book review section rounds out the volume.

Table of Content

Eclectic Dichotomies in K. P. Moritz’s Aesthetic, Pedagogical, and Therapeutic Worlds

Sturm und Drang Comedy and the Enlightenment Tradition

Heaven Help Us! Journals! Calendars!: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenien as Circulatory Intervention

Between Nanjing and Weimar: Goethe’s Metaphysical Correspondences

Projection and Concealment: Goethe’s Introduction of the Mask to the Weimar Stage

Embarrassment and Individual Identity in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften

The Daisy Oracle: A New Gretchenfrage in Goethe’s Faust

Goethes Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil als Bruch: Zur Semantik des Zauberbegriffs im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert

‘Ächt antike Denkmale’?: Goethe and the Hemsterhuis Gem Collection

Bestseller und Erlebniskultur: Neue medienästhetische Ansätze bei Gisbert Ter-Nedden und Robert Vellusig verdeutlicht an Romanadaptionen von Franz von Heufeld

Papierdenken: Blasche, Fröbel, and the Lessons of Nineteenth-Century Paper Modeling

The Men Who Knew Too Much: Reading Goethe’s ‘Erlkönig’ in Light of Hitchcock

Genius and Bloodsucker: Napoleon, Goethe, and Caroline de la Motte Fouqué

Instrument or Inspiration? Commemorating the 1949 Goethe Year in Argentina

Media Inventories of the Nineteenth Century: A Report from Two Workshops

Introduction: Directions in Eighteenth-Century German Studies

Medical Humanities and the Eighteenth Century

Disability Studies and New Directions in Eighteenth-Century German Studies

Goethe’s Talking Books: Print Culture and the Problem of Literary Orality

Three Observations and Three Possible Directions: Musical and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Lessing and Kotzebue: A Black Studies Approach to Reading the Eighteenth Century

Law and Literature: Codes as Colonizing Texts and Legal Ideas in Anthropocene Works

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Migrant? or Debunking the Myth of 1955

‘Goethe Boom’ Films: Bildung Reloaded

Book Reviews

About the author

ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.