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Editor Sought for the Goethe Yearbook

Call to fill the position of editor for the Yearbook of the North American Goethe Society

As the current editors have successfully served their five-year term, the Society is now welcoming applications to fill the position for the next five year term. Joint applications for co-editorship are welcome. The Goethe Society will provide the editors with funds for copy-editing and print preparation of the Yearbook.For scholars interested in serving as the next editor, please send a letter of application, c.v., and a brief 500-word statement about your scholarly engagement with German literature in the Goethezeit, as well as your vision for the Yearbook, to Daniel Purdy, dlp14@psu.edu, by July 15, 2017.

Goethe Yearbook 24 (2017)

Special Section on The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit, edited by Elliot Schreiber and John B. Lyon

  1. Elliot Schreiber and John B. Lyon, "Introduction: The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit." 3-19.
Articles:
  1. Colin Benert, "The Theater of Anamnesis: The Spaces of Memory and the Exteriority of Time in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre." 21-41.
  2. Anthony Mahler, "Affective Enclosures: The Topography and Topoi of Goethe’s Autobiographical Childhood." 43-63
  3. Tove Holmes, "Blind Spots as Projection Spaces in Die Wahlverwandtschaften. 65-84.
  4. John B. Lyon, "Disorientation in Novalis or 'The Subterranean Homesick Blues'." 85-103.
  5. Joseph D. O'Neil, "Selfhood, Sovereignty, and Public Space in Die italienische Reise, “Das Rochus-Fest zu Bingen,” and Dichtung und Wahrheit, Book Five." 105-124.
  6. Christian P. Weber, "Spatial Mobilization: Kleist’s Strategic Road Map for the Berliner Abendblätter and Tactical Displacements in the 'Tagesbegebenheiten'." 125-153.
  7. Monika Nenon, "'Daseyn enthüllen': Zum mediengeschichtlichen Kontext von Friedrich Heinrich Jacobis Eduard Allwills Papiere." 155-174.
  8. Sara Luly, "The Horror of Coming Home: Integration and Fragmentation in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's 'Der Abtrünnige'." 175-195.
  9. Stephanie Galasso, "Form and Contention: Sati as Custom in Günderrode's 'Die Malabarischen Witwen'." 197-220.
  10. Gabriel Trop, "Absolute Signification and Ontological Inconsistency in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann." 221-248.
  11. Edgar Landgraf, "Educational Environments: Narration and Education in Campe, Goethe, and Kleist." 249-264.
  12. Inge Stephan, "'War Goethe ein Mohammedaner?': Goethes West-östlicher Divan (1819) als Spiegelungsfläche in Thomas Lehrs September. Fata Morgana (2010). 265-279.
Book Reviews:
  1. Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (review). Walter K. Stewart. 281-282.
  2. Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces ed. by Lorna Fitzsimmons (review). Andrew B. B. Hamilton. 283-284.
  3. Lorbeerkranz und Palmenzweig: Streifzüge im Gebiet des poetischen Lobs by Johannes Anderegg (review). Hans Rudolf Vaget. 284-285.
  4. Ungleiche Gleichgesinnte: Die Beziehung zwischen Goethe und Schiller, 1794–98 by Gerrit Brüning (review). Jeffrey L. Sammons. 285-287.
  5. Goethes Freunde in Gotha und Weimar by Sigrid Damm (review). Elizabeth Powers. 287-290.
  6. The Eye and the Gaze: Goethe and the Autobiographical Subject by Evelyn K. Moore (review). Seth Berk. 290-292.
  7. Mehr Licht: Goethe mit Newton im Streit um die Farben by Olaf L. Müller (review). Joel B. Lande. 292-293.
  8. Goethe and Judaism: The Troubled Inheritance of Modern Literature by Karin Schutjer (review). Jonathan M. Hess. 293-295.
  9. Demonic History: From Goethe to the Present by Kirk Wetters (review). Daniel DiMassa. 295-297.
  10. A Translation from German into English of Joseph von Eichendorff's Romantic Novel Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) by Joseph von Eichendorff (review). Erlis Glass Wickersham. 297-298.
  11. Die Welt in Bildern: Erfahrungen und Evidenz in Friedrich J. Bertuchs Bilderbuch für Kinder by Silvy Chakkalakal (review). Patricia Anne Simpson. 299-300.
  12. Weibliche Kreativität um 1800: Women's Creativity around 1800 ed. by Linda Dietrick and Birte Giesler (review). Sara Luly. 301-302.
  13. Novel Affinities: Composing the Family in the German Novel, 1795–1830 by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge (review). Erlis Glass Wickersham. 302-304.
  14. Autopsie von Revolution und Restauration: Georg Büchner und die politische Imagination by Patrick Fortmann (review). Bernd K. Estabrook. 304-305.
  15. Europäische Romantik: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven der Forschung ed. by Helmut Hühn and Joachim Schiedermair (review). Marcus Lampert. 305-307.
  16. Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750–1837 by Alessa Johns (review). Karin Baumgartner. 307-309.
  17. Forgotten Dreams: Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog by Laurie Ruth Johnson (review). Kamaal Haque. 309-311.
  18. Zeitschriftenliteratur/Fortsetzungsliteratur ed. by Nicola Kaminski, Nora Ramtke, and Carsten Zelle (review). Vance Byrd. 311-313.
  19. Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity by Christine Lehleiter (review). Stefani Engelstein. 313-315.
  20. Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Sarah L. Leonard (review). Samper Vendrell. 315-317.
  21. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera by Francien Markx (review). Christopher R. Clason. 317-319.
  22. The Science of Literature: Essays on an Incalculable Difference by Helmut Müller-Sievers (review). Joseph D. O'Neil. 319-321.
  23. Poetry as a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century by Gabriel Trop (review). Christian P. Weber. 321-324.
  24. Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx by Leif Weatherby (review). Alice A. Kuzniar. 324-326.

From the Yearbook Editors

Volume 24 of the Goethe Yearbook is currently in the final stages of typesetting and should be in your mailboxes by late spring. It will contain a special section on the “Poetics of Space and Place in the Goethezeit,” co-edited by Elliott Schreiber and John B. Lyon, as well as standalone articles on Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, on widow-burning in Karoline von Günderrode, on ontology and signification in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Sandmann, on “Educational Environments in Goethe and Kleist,” on F.H. Jacobi’s Allwill, and on Goethe’s Divan as reflected in Thomas Lehr’s novel September. Fata Morgana (2010). Once again we are very pleased that this volume brings together very diverse scholarship, and that our contributors once again run the gamut from graduate students to emeriti. And our new book review editor Sean Franzel has brought together more than 20 thoughtful reviews of recent publications relevant to the Goethezeit.We are well on our way towards putting together the twenty-fifth volume of the Yearbook. It will contain a special section on “What Goethe heard,” edited by Mary Helen Dupree. However, it will also contain a large number of standalone articles. As always, we would be thrilled if you submitted a manuscript, or encouraged your students and colleagues to do so. 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.Finally, Volume 25 will be the last Goethe Yearbook under our auspices. So please give some thought to putting your name forward when the GSNA begins its search for our successors. We have really loved our time shepherding this wonderful journal, and we are quite sure you would too!

Adrian DaubStanford University

Elisabeth KrimmerUniversity of California at Davis

 

From the Yearbook Editors

Vol. 24 of the Goethe Yearbook is currently being copy-edited and will be on its way to the printer soon. This volume will feature a special section co-edited by John Lyon and Elliott Schreiber on the “Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit,” with contributions on blind spots as projection spaces in Goethe’s Elective Affinities (Tove Holmes); on the topography and topoi of Goethe’s autobiographical childhood (Anthony Mahler); on disorientation and the subterranean in Novalis (John Lyon); on selfhood, sovereignty, and public space in Die italienische Reise, “Das Rochus-Fest zu Bingen,” and Dichtung und Wahrheit (Joseph O’Neil); on Goethe’s theater of anamnesis and the exposure of the temporal subject in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Colin Benert); and on spatial mobilization and tactical displacements in Kleist’s Berliner Abendblätter and the “Tagesbegebenheiten” (Christian Weber).In addition, there are original contributions on the horror of coming home in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s “Der Abtrünnige” (Sara Luly) and on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi’s Eduard Allwills Papiere (Monika Nenon); on genre and mourning practices in two poems by Karoline von Günderrode (Stephanie Galasso) and on absolute signification and ontological inconsistency in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann (Gabriel Trop).We are extremely pleased that the Goethe Yearbook is able to collect so many far-ranging contributions from a diverse group of scholars year after year. Thank you to all who have submitted, thank you to all who read submissions for us. We are now accepting contributions to Vol. 25. As always, we hope to hear from many of you and particularly welcome contributions by younger scholars.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