Book Series

The Goethe Society sponsors a book series published by Bucknell University Press, entitled New Studies in the Age of Goethe. Members of the Goethe Society of North America can claim a 40% discount and free shipping on all titles. Books can be purchased at the e-commerce site for Bucknell/Rutgers University Press. Members should enter the society’s discount code, BGOETHE19, in their shopping cart to claim the discount.

The Society has been seeking ways, in light of the ever-narrowing publishing possibilities, to support research on Goethe/ eighteenth-century studies and finally decided to collaborate with Bucknell. On average, we publish about 1-2 books a year in the series. The goal of this series is to publish innovative research that contextualizes the “Age of Goethe,” whether within the fields of literature, history (including art history and history of science), philosophy, art, music, or politics. We encourage the submission of high-quality manuscripts and welcome all approaches and perspectives. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary projects, creative approaches to archival or original source materials, theoretically informed scholarship, work that introduces previously undiscovered materials, or projects that re-examine traditional epochal boundaries or open new channels of interpretation. Authors should send manuscript proposals and one sample chapter (electronic versions are preferred) to the editor of the book series,

Professor John B. Lyon

Chair, School of Modern Languages
Professor and Charles Smithgall Jr. Institute Chair
Georgia Tech
613 Cherry St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30332-0375
jlyon38@gatech.edu

Editorial Board

Prof. Karin Schutjer, University of Oklahoma, kschutjer@ou.edu

Prof. Martha Helfer, Rutgers University, mhelfer@rci.rutgers.edu

Prof. Astrida Tantillo, University of Illinois, Chicago, tantillo@uic.edu

Advisory Board

Jane Brown, University of Washington
Adrian Daub, Stanford University
Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown University
Stefani Engelstein, Duke University
Elisabeth Krimmer, University of California, Davis
Nicholas Rennie, Rutgers University
Heidi Schlipphacke, University of Illinois, Chicago
Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College
Gabriel Trop, University of North Carolina
Brian Tucker, Wabash College
David Wellbery, University of Chicago
Ellwood Wiggins, University of Washington

Books in the Series

  • Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth, by Daniel Di Massa (Summer 2022)

  • The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century, by Heidi Schlipphacke (Fall/Winter 2022/23)

  • Play in the Age of Goethe:  Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800, edited by Edgar Landgraf and Elliot Schreiber (2020)

  • Odysseys of Recognition, Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist, by Ellwood Wiggins (2019)

  • Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy, by Seán Williams (2019)

  • A Pedagogy of Observation: Nineteenth-Century Panoramas, German Literature, and Reading Culture, by Vance Byrd (2017)

  • Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity, by Christine Lehleiter (2014)

  • Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism: Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Disney and Hitler, by Benjamin Bennett (2013)

  • The Mask and the Quill: Actress-Writers in Germany from Enlightenment to Romanticism, by Mary Helen Dupree (2011)

  • After Jena: Goethe’s Elective Affinities and the End of the Old Regime, by Peter J. Schwartz (2010)

  • Reading Riddles: Rhetorics of Obscurity from Romanticism to Freud, by Brian Tucker (2010)