Auteur: Simon Richter

The cult of the female breast in contemporary American and European society is as pervasive as it is notorious. Our current fascination merely updates a long-standing obsession with the breast, which …

The Lola film is a distinct subgenre of the woman’s film in which woman’s claim to pleasure is entertained without recourse to the figure of the femme fatale. Lola embodies a recognizable set of char …

New essays from leading Goethe scholars providing testimony to the continuing, even renewed, relevance of Goethe for literary studies today. Invoking Goethe’s name has become fashionable again. With …

Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions. In Western culture, women are often linked with death, perhaps because they are tradi …

New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism. In Germany, Weimar Classicism (roughly the period from Goethe’s return to Germany from …

Volume 12 is dedicated to founding editor Thomas P. Saine, and includes essays on Goethe’s novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller. The Goethe Yearbook, fi …

Essays on the Wilhelm Meister novels, Faust, Goethe’s early plays, Schiller’s Räuber and on Goethe’s thought in relation to current debates on cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality. The Goethe Yearbook …

Focuses on childhood in the Age of Goethe, in addition to various other topics and works. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is …

New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800. The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Go …