Simon Richter 
Goethe Yearbook 14 

Focuses on childhood in the Age of Goethe, in addition to various other topics and works.


The
Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe Scholarship. It aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the
Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. Volume 14 features a special section on childhood in the Age of Goethe, co-edited with Anthony Krupp. In addition, readers will find two essays illuminating Goethe’s
Triumph der Empfindsamkeit, an inspired reading of
Das Märchen against the background of Goethe’s critique of Newtonian science, a careful analysis of the daemonic in the poem ‘Mächtiges Überraschen, ‘ and essays on Egmont and
Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre.


Contributors: Kelly Barry, Paul Fleming, Edgar Landgraf, Liliane Weissberg, Angus Nicholls, Robin A. Clouser


Simon J. Richter is Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, and book review editor Martha B. Helfer is Professor of German at Rutgers University. Anthony Krupp is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Miami.

Table of Content

Natural Palingenesis: Childhood, Memory, and Self-Experience in Herder and Jean Paul – Kelly Barry

The Promises of Childhood: Autobiography in Goethe and Jean Paul – Paul Fleming

The Education of Humankind: Perfectability and Discipline in Kant’s Über Pädagogik – Edgar Landgraf

Kästchenwahl – Liliane Weissberg

Sentimental Confusion: Art, Nature, and Aesthetic Autonomy in Goethe’s
Der Triumph der Empfindsamkeit – John P. Heins

Seeing the Light: Goethe’s
Märchen as Science — Newton’s Science as Fairy Tale – Heather I. Sullivan

The Ironic ‘Tick’ in Goethe’s
Egmont: The Potentials and Limits of the Modern Heroic and Poetic Ideal – Raleigh Whitinger

The Philosophical Concept of the Daemonic in Goethe’s ‘Mächtiges Überraschen’ – Angus Nicholls

‘Die pilgernde Törin’: Genesis, Revaluation, and Mirroring in Goethe’s
Wanderjahre – Robin Clouser

About the author

RALEIGH WHITINGER is emeritus professor of German at the University of Alberta. He has published widely on Theodor Storm, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Goethe, Kleist, and German naturalism. From 2002 to 2011, he edited Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. His translation of Andreas-Salome’s novella collection, Menschenkinder, was published as The Human Family in 2005 (University of Nebraska).