New essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and theGoethezeit, including contributions by both eminent scholars and new voices.

New essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, including contributions by both eminent scholars and new voices.



TheGoethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, encouraging North American Goethe scholarship by publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of theGoethezeit while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world.
Volume 21 contains eleven articles, including contributions by leading scholars David Wellbery and Katharina Mommsen; innovative work on the reception of Goethe's works around 1900, on women writers, and on Goethe's contemporary Albrecht von Haller; theoretically sophisticated interpretations, including articles on concepts of space inAlexis and Doraand on notions of sacrifice inFaust; and interdisciplinary pieces ranging from a discussion of contemporary psychological and medical theories of ill humor in relation to Goethe'sWerther and an economic reading ofGoethe'sFaust to an analysis of illustrations of Goethe's works. The review section collects responses by eminent scholars to a wide swath of recent books on Goethe and his age, both in German and English.

Contributors: Liesl Allingham, William H. Carter, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, John B. Lyon, Waltraud Maierhofer, Catherine Minter, Katharina Mommsen, David Pan, Michael Saman, Leif Weatherby, David E. Wellbery.

Adrian Daub is Associate Professor of German at Stanford. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California Davis. Book review editor Birgit Tautz is Associate Professor of German at Bowdoin College.

On the Logic of Change in Goethe's Work
Space and Place in Goethe's "Alexis und Dora"
Countermemory in Karoline von Günderrode's "Darthula nach Ossian": A Female Warrior, Her Unruly Breast, and the Construction of Her Myth
Bad Habits of the Heart: Werther's Critique of Ill Humor in the Context of Contemporary Psychological Thought
Confessions of a Childless Woman: Fictional Autobiography around 1800
Faust's Begehren: Revisiting the History of Political Economy in Faust II
Sacrifice in Goethe's Faust
Constructions of Goethe versus Constructions of Kant in German Intellectual Culture, 1900-1925
Das Innere der Natur und ihr Organ: von Albrecht von Haller zu Goethe
Die Titelkupfer von Moritz Retzsch zu Goethes Ausgabe letzter Hand
Zu Goethe und der Islam-Antwort auf die oft aufgeworfene Frage: War Goethe ein Muslim?
Book Reviews