Goethe Yearbook 24

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and his age, featuring in this volume a special section on the poetics of space in theGoethezeit.

Cutting-edge scholarly articles on diverse aspects of Goethe and his age, featuring in this volume a special section on the poetics of space in the Goethezeit.



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 24 features a special section titled "The Poetics of Space in the Goethezeit," co-edited by John Lyon and Elliott Schreiber, with contributions on blind spots in Goethe'sElective Affinities; on the topography and topoi of Goethe's autobiographical childhood; on disorientation and the subterranean in Novalis; on selfhood, sovereignty, and public space inDie italienische Reise and Dichtung und Wahrheit; on Goethe's theater of anamnesis inWilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre; and on spatial mobilization in Kleist'sBerliner Abendblätter. There are also articles on the horror of coming home in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's "Der Abtrünnige" and on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi'sEduard Allwills Papiere.

Contributors: Colin Benert, Stephanie Galasso, Tove Holmes, Edgar Landgraf, Sara Luly, John B. Lyon, Anthony Mahler, Monika Nenon, Joseph O'Neil, Elliott Schreiber, Inge Stephan, Gabriel Trop, Christian P. Weber.

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.

Introduction to the Special Section on the Poetics of Space in theGoethezeit
The Theater of Anamnesis: The Spaces of Memory and the Exteriority of Time inWilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Affective Enclosures: The Topography and Topoi of Goethe's Autobiographical Childhood
Blind Spots as Projection Spaces inDie Wahlverwandtschaften
Disorientation in Novalis or "The Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Selfhood, Sovereignty, and Public Space inDie italienische Reise, "Das Rochus-Fest zu Bingen," andDichtung und Wahrheit, Book Five
Spatial Mobilization: Kleist's Strategic Road Map for theBerliner Abendblätter and Tactical Displacements in the "Tagesbegebenheiten"
"Daseyn enthüllen": Zum mediengeschichtlichen Kontext von Friedrich Heinrich JacobisEduard Allwills Papiere
The Horror of Coming Home: Integration and Fragmentation in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's "Der Abtrünnige"
Form and Contention:Sati as Custom in Günderrode's "Die Malabarischen Witwen"
Absolute Signification and Ontological Inconsistency in E. T. A. Hoffmann'sDer Sandmann
Educational Environments: Narration and Education in Campe, Goethe, and Kleist
"War Goethe ein Mohammedaner?": GoethesWest-östlicher Divan (1819) als Spiegelungsfläche in Thomas LehrsSeptember. Fata Morgana (2010)
Book Reviews