Goethe Yearbook

Goethe Yearbook 23 (2016)

Articles:
  1. Jane K. Brown, “Building Bridges: Goethe’s Fairy-Tale Aesthetics.” 1-17.
  2. Frederick Amrine, “Goethe as Mystagogue.” 19-39.
  3. Jocelyn Holland, “Observing Neutrality, circa 1800.” 41-57.
  4. Wendy C. Nielsen, “Goethe, Faust, and Motherless Creations.” 59-75.
  5. Lauren Nossett, “Impossible Ideals: Reconciling Virginity and Maternity in Goethe’s Werther.” 77-93.
  6. John H. Smith, “Kant, Calculus, Consciousness, and the Mathematical Infinite in Us.” 95-121.
  7. Eleanor Ter Horst, “The Classical Aesthetics of Schlegel’s Lucinde.” 123-140.

Special Section on Visual Culture in the Goethezeit

  1. Joel B. Lande, “Acquaintance with Color: Prolegomena to a Study of Goethe’s Zur Farbenlehre.” 143-169.
  2. Gabrielle Bersier, “‘Hamiltonian-Hendelian’ Mimoplastics and Tableau of the Underworld: The Visual Aesthetics of Goethe’s 1815 Proserpina Production.” 171-194.
  3. Beate Allert, “J. W. Goethe and C. G. Carus: On the Representation of Nature in Science and Art.” 195-219.
  4. Catriona Macleod, “Brentano’s Remains: Visual and Verbal Bricolage in Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia (1838).” 221-243.
  5. Tanvi Solanki, “A Book of Living Paintings: Tableaux Vivants in Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809).” 245-270.
Book Reviews:
  1. Faust: A Tragedy; Parts One and Two, Fully Revised. Trans. Martin Greenberg. Introduction by W. Daniel Wilson. (Christopher R. Clason). 271-272.
  2. Lotte meine Lotte: Die Briefe von Goethe an Charlotte von Stein, 1776–1786 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and: Der Briefschreiber Goethe by Albrecht Schöne. (Elizabeth Powers). 273-276.
  3. Goethe: Kunstwerk des Lebens, Biographie by Rüdiger Safranski. (Elizabeth Powers). 276-279.Goethes Erotica und die Weimarer “Zensoren.” by W. Daniel Wilson. (Ehrhard Bahr). 279-281.
  4. Goethe, der Merkantilismus und die Inflation: Zum ökonomischen Wissen und Handeln Goethes und seiner Figuren by Heike Knortz and Beate Laudenberg. (William H. Carter). 281-282.
  5. Wanderers Verstummen, Goethes Schweigen, Fausts Tragödie; oder, Die große Transformation der Welt by Michael Jaeger. (Christopher Chiasson). 282-284.
  6. Mit einer Art von Wut: Goethe in der Revolution by Gustav Seibt. (Waltraud Maierhofer). 284-285.
  7. Goethe’s Allegories of Identity by Jane K. Brown. (Simon Richter). 285-288.
  8. Die Weimarer Klassikerstätten: Vom Kriegsende bis zur Gründung der Nationalen Forschungs- und Gedenkstätten der klassischen deutschen Literatur in Weimar; Ereignisse und Gestalten: Eine Chronik, 1945–1949 ed. by Wilfried Lehrke. (Daniel Wilson). 288-289.
  9. Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment by T. J. Reed. (Martha B. Helfer). 290-291.
  10. Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 by Matt Erlin. (Arnd Bohm). 291-292.
  11. Literarische Schriften I, Band 1.1, “Sebaldus Nothanker.” by Friedrich Nicolai, and: Literarische Schriften I, Band 1.2, “Freuden des jungen Werthers”; “Eyn feyner kleiner Almanach”; “Anhang zu Friedrich Schillers Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1797.” ed. by Hans-Gert Roloff. (James Hardin). 293-296.
  12. Krieg und Frieden im 18. Jahrhundert: Kulturgeschichtliche Studien ed. by Stefanie Stockhorst. (Jonathan Blake Fine). 296-298.
  13. Kostümierung der Geschlechter: Schauspielkunst als Erfindung der Aufklärung by Beate Hochholdinger-Reiterer. (Pascale Lafountain). 298-300.
  14. Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things by Anders Engberg-Pedersen. (Yale Almog). 300-302.
  15. Lesen, Kopieren, Schreiben: Lese- und Exzerpierkunst in der europäischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts ed. by Elisabeth Décultot. (Margaretmary Daley). 302-305.
  16. German Literature as World Literature ed. by Thomas Oliver Beebee. (Mary Bricker). 305-307.
  17. Kant’s Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy by Jennifer Mensch. (Elizabeth Effinger). 307-309.
  18. Geordnete Spontaneität: Lyrische Subjektivität bei Achim von Arnim by Jan Oliver Jost-Fritz. (Christian P. Weber). 309-310.
  19. Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century by Catriona MacLeod. (Samuel Frederick). 310-312.
  20. The Tragedy of Fatherhood: King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West by Silke-Maria Weineck. (Anita Ludic). 312-314.
  21. Out of Place: German Realism, Displacement, and Modernity by John B. Lyon. (Tove Holmes). 314-316.
  22. Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner. (James Hardin). 316-318.
  23. Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity by Martin Shuster. (Thomas L. Cooksey). 318-320.
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From the Yearbook Editors

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As Volume 23 of the Goethe Yearbook is getting ready for publication, we are busy putting together what is looking to be an even larger 24th volume. A special section on “Space and Place in the Goethezeit,” guest-edited by John Lyon and Elliott Schreiber, will collect six essays by eminent and up-and-coming scholars. Eight contributions outside of this focus will bring together scholars from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds and career stages. The review section, edited for the first time by Sean Franzel, will provide an overview of new publications on Goethe and his age.We continue to be excited by the way in which the Yearbook manages to reflect the diversity among scholars of the Goethezeit, and the immense spirit of intellectual community that shines through in the reviews. In that spirit, we continue to ask scholars at any stage of their career to get in touch, to submit their work, and to review.Manuscript submissions should reach us by late May, preferably earlier. Submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style and confine themselves to less than 35 pages. For specific questions about scholarly citations, please consult the Yearbook’s style sheet.Note that the entire run of back issues is available on Project MUSE.

Adrian DaubStanford University

Elisabeth KrimmerUniversity of California at Davis

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From the Yearbook Editors

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Vol. 23 of the Goethe Yearbook is currently being copy-edited and will be on its way to the printer soon. It features a special section on the visual arts with contributions on the visual aesthetics of Goethe’s 1815 Proserpina production by Gabrielle Bersier; on Goethe’s Farbenlehre by Joel Lande; on the relationship between J.W. Goethe and C.G. Carus and their respective views on the representation of nature in art and science by Beate Allert; and on visual and verbal bricolage in Clemens Brentano’s Gockel, Hinkel und Gackeleia. by Catriona MacLeod.In addition, there are also original contributions on Goethe and ancient mystery religions by Fred Amrine; on Goethe’s fairy-tale aesthetics by Jane Brown; on virginity and maternity in Goethe’s Werther by Lauren Nossett; on motherless creations in Goethe’s Faust by Wendy Nielsen; and on the concept of the mathematical infinite in Kant by John H. Smith.We would like to use this opportunity to express our gratitude to Stanford University whose generous financial support made it possible to hire a copyeditor and thus has expedited the process considerably. We are now accepting contributions to Vol. 24. We hope to hear from many of you and particularly welcome contributions by younger scholars.As always, the entire run of back issues is available on Project MUSE.

Adrian DaubStanford University

 Elisabeth KrimmerUniversity of California at Davis

Goethe Yearbook 22 (2015)

Articles:

Special Section on Goethe and Environmentalism edited by Dalia Nassar and Luke Fischer

  1. Luke Fisher and Dalia Nassar, “Introduction: Goethe and Environmentalism.” 3-22.
  2. Kate Rigby, “Art, Nature, and the Poesy of Plants in the Goethezeit: A Biosemiotic Perspective.” 23-44.
  3. Frederick Amrine, “The Music of the Organism: Uexküll, Merleau-Ponty, Zuckerkandl, and Deleuze as Goethean Ecologists in Search of a New Paradigm.” 45-72.
  4. Ryan Feigenbaum, “Toward a Nonanthropocentric Vision of Nature: Goethe’s Discovery of the Intermaxillary Bone.” 73-94.
  5. Jason Groves, “Goethe’s Petrofiction: Reading the Wanderjahre in the Anthropocene.” 95-114.
  6. Heather I. Sullivan, “Nature and the ‘Dark Pastoral’ in Goethe’s Werther.” 115-132.
  7. Gernot Böhme, “Goethe und die moderne Zivilisation.” 133-142.____________________________________
  8. Iris Hennigfeld, “Goethe’s Phenomenological Way of Thinking and the Urphänomen.” 143-168.
  9. Stephanie M. Hilger, “Orientation and Supplementation: Locating the ‘Hermaphrodite’ in the Encyclopédie.” 169-188.
  10. David Hill, “Claudine von Villa Bella and the Publication of ‘Nähe des Geliebten.’ 189-202.
  11. Daniel Purdy, “West-östliche Divan and the ‘Abduction/Seduction of Europe’: World Literature and the Circulation of Culture.” 203-226.Helmut J. Schneider, Kunstsammlung und Kunstgeselligkeit: Zu Goethes Sammlungs- und Museumskonzeption zwischen 1798 und 1817.” 227-246.
  12. Inge Stephan, “‘Er hatte einen entschiedenen Hang zur Intrige’: Überlegungen zu J. M. R. Lenz, seiner Rezeption und seinen Werken.” 247-260.
Review Essay:
  1. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Amtliche Schriften. Teil I, Geheimes Consilium und andere bis zur Italienreise unternommene Aufgabengebiete. Ed. Reinhard Kluge. Frankfurt/Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1998. 917 pp., 9 ill. (Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Sämtliche Werke: Briefe, Tagebücher und Gespräche. Ed. Friedmar Apel et al. Frankfurter Ausgabe 26.) Teil II, Aufgabengebiete seit der Rückkehr aus Italien. Ed. Irmtraut und Gerhard Schmid. FA 27. Frankfurt/Main: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 1999. 1238 pp., 15 ill. Kommentar zu den Amtlichen Schriften. Vol. 1. Ed. Reinhard Kluge. FA 26K. Berlin: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2011. 667 pp., 11 ill. Kommentar zu den Amtlichen Schriften. Vol. 2. Ed. Gerhard und Irmtraut Schmid. FA 27K. Berlin: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2011. 1425 pp., 9 ill. Register und Verzeichnisse. Ed. Reinhard Kluge, Gerhard Schmid, and Irmtraut Schmid. FA 26/27R (CD-ROM). Berlin: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, 2011. 355 pp. (W. Daniel Wilson). 261-268.
Book Reviews:
  1. Manfred Wenzel, ed., Goethe Handbuch. Supplemente 2, Naturwissenschaften. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2012. 851 pp. (Astrida Orle Tantillo). 269.
  2. Heinz Haertl, Hrsg., Die Wahlverwandtschaften: Eine Dokumentation der Wirkung von Goethes Roman, 1808–1832. Reprint der Erstausgabe mit neuen Funden als Anhang und mit Vorwort von Jochen Golz. Schriften der Goethe-Gesellschaft, Bd. 76, hrsg. von Jochen Golz. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013. 563 S., 17 Abbildungen. (Ehrhard Bahr). 270.
  3. Katharina Mommsen, Goethe und der Alte Fritz. Leipzig: Lehmstedt, 2012. 231 S. (Walter Tschacher). 271.
  4. Christian P. Weber, Die Logik der Lyrik: Goethes Phänomenologie des Geistes in Gedichten. Teil 1, Die Genese des Genies. Freiburg i.Br.: Rombach, 2013. 486 pp. (Martin Baeumel). 273.
  5. Carsten Rohde and Thorsten Valk, eds., Goethes Liebeslyrik: Semantiken der Leidenschaft um 1800. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. 404 pp. (Christian P. Weber). 275.
  6. Gabrielle Bersier, Wege des Heilens: Goethes physiologische Autobiographie Dichtung und Wahrheit. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2014. 253 pp. (James F. Howell). 279.
  7. Daniel Wilson, Goethe Männer Knaben: Ansichten zur “Homosexualität.” Trans. Angela Steidele. Berlin: Insel, 2012. 503 pp., 41 ills. (Robert D. Tobin). 280.
  8. Pamela Currie, Goethe’s Visual World. Germanic Literatures 3. London: Legenda, 2013. 166 pp. (Walter K. Stewart). 284.
  9. Michael Mandelartz, Goethe, Kleist: Literatur, Politik und Wissenschaft um 1800. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2011. 465 pp. (Gabrielle Bersier). 286.
  10. Mattias Pirholt, Metamimesis: Imitation in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Early German Romanticism. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2012. 220 pp. (John B. Lyon). 287.
  11. Jo Tudor, Sound and Sense: Music and Musical Metaphor in the Thought and Writing of Goethe and His Age. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011. xvi + 515 pp. (Lorraine Byrne Bodley). 289.
  12. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson, eds., Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. 269 pp. (Christopher R. Clason). 291.
  13. Simon Richter and Richard Block, eds., Goethe’s Ghosts: Reading and the Persistence of Literature. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. 315 pp., 7 ills. (Lauren J. Brooks). 294.
  14. Eckart Goebel, Beyond Discontent: “Sublimation” from Goethe to Lacan. Trans. James C. Wagner. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2013. xiv + 259 pp. (Thomas L. Cooksey). 296.
  15. Eric Achermann, ed., Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766): Philosophie, Poetik und Wissenschaft. Werkprofile: Philosophen und Literaten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2014. 467 pp. (Seth Berk). 298.
  16. Steven D. Martinson, Projects of Enlightenment: The Work of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Cultural, Intercultural, and Transcultural Perspectives. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2013. 286 pp. (Jonathan Blake Fine). 299.
  17. Lisa Marie Anderson, ed., Hamann and the Tradition. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2012. xiii + 211 pp. (Elizabeth Powers). 301.
  18. Kenneth S. Calhoon, Affecting Grace: Theater, Subject, and the Shakespearean Paradox in German Literature from Lessing to Kleist. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2013. xii + 269 pp., 12 ills. (Jocelyne Kolb). 304.
  19. Elliott Schreiber, The Topography of Modernity: Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy. Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2012. 179 pp. (Cord-Friedrich Berghahn). 306.
  20. Vicki A. Spencer, Herder’s Political Thought: A Study of Language, Culture, and Community. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2012. xi + 354 pp. (Rachel Zuckert). 310.
  21. Hans Adler and Lynn L. Wolff, eds., Aisthesis und Noesis: Zwei Erkenntisformen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Munich: Wilhelm Finck, 2013. 202 S. (Beate Allert). 311.
  22. Dalia Nassar, The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795–1804. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 360 pp. (Gabriel Trop). 313.
  23. Peter Goßens, Weltliteratur: Modelle transnationaler Literaturwahrnehmung im 19. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2011. xiii + 457 pp. (Elizabeth Powers). 316.
  24. John Walker, ed., The Present Word: Culture, Society and the Site of Literature; Essays in Honour of Nicholas Boyle. London: Legenda, for Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2013. xii + 204 pp. (Arnd Bohm). 318.
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From the Yearbook Editors

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We are still looking for original contributions to volume 23 and would like to invite submissions on all aspects of eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century German literature and culture. We are particularly interested in articles written by advanced graduate students and assistant professors, and would like to use this opportunity to encourage them to contact us about potential publications.In addition to our general section, we are planning a special section on “Goethe and the Visual Arts” and welcome contributions on drawings, painting, tableau vivant, sculpture, printmaking, design, and architecture in the long eighteenth century. We are also interested in critical readings of films about Goethe and his contemporaries as well as filmic adaptations of eighteenth-century works.Submissions should reach us by late May, preferably earlier. Manuscript submissions should follow the Chicago Manual of Style and confine themselves to less than 35 pages. For specific questions about scholarly citations, please consult the Yearbook’s style sheet.

Adrian DaubStanford University

 Elisabeth KrimmerUniversity of California at Davis