Goethe Yearbook 30

PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. BIRGIT TAUTZ is George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages and German at Bowdoin College. MARGARETMARY DALEY is Associate Professor of German at Case Western Reserve University and author of Women of Letters: A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim (Camden House, 1998).. CARL NIEKERK is Professor of German / Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois. Melissa Sheedy is a Lecturer in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. BIRGIT TAUTZ is George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages and German at Bowdoin College. SARAH VANDEGRIFT ELDRIDGE (d. 2025) was Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ANDREA MEYERTHOLEN is assistant professor of German Studies at the University of Kansas. MICHAEL SWELLANDER is Assistant Teaching Professor of German at Skidmore College, NY.

• Editors' PrefacePatricia Anne Simpson and Birgit Tautz ESSAYSWielands Singspiel Alceste, ein Stein des Anstoßes für Goethe?Hans HahnLotte's Bird, Female Desire, and the Language of 'Sexuality' in Leiden des jungen WerthersCarl Niekerk La Roche and Goethe: Gender, Genre, and AuthorshipMaryann Piel The Persistence of Bias in Eighteenth-Century Studies Margaretmary Daley Things of Art and Amor: Mediation in Goethe's Römische ElegienSebastian Meixner and Carolin Rocks Reading Performatively: Disruptive Gestures in Heinrich von KleistKatherine Pollock NEW DIRECTIONSRe-Examining (White) Enlightenment Legacies Through a German Lens Birgit Tautz and Patricia Anne Simpson Fractured Visions, New Horizons: Debates in Eighteenth-Century Studies Beyond German StudiesBirgit Tautz Black Actors: Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Decolonial FantasiesPatricia Anne Simpson Interior Whiteness: Race and the "Rise of the Novel"Sarah V. Eldridge Racial Classification, Slavery, and Human Rights: The Impacts of the Transatlantic Order in Eighteenth-Century GermanySigrid Köhler and Claudia Nitzschke FORUMUnexpected Bodies in the Eighteenth Century Introduction and Select BibliographyPatricia Anne Simpson and Birgit Tautz Mind over Body? Stigma, Staring, and the SelfAnna C. Spafford Unexpected Bodies of Water: On the "Blue" GoethezeitBenjamin D. Schluter Queering Material Nature: Bewitched Bodies and the Limits of the EnlightenmentMelissa Sheedy Plants as Unexpected Bodies Heather Sullivan Euphorion as an Aesthetic BodyHeidi Grek Book Reviews