Goethe Yearbook 30

Editors' Preface Patricia Anne Simpson and Birgit Tautz ESSAYS Wielands Singspiel Alceste, ein Stein des Anstoßes für Goethe? Hans Hahn Lotte's Bird, Female Desire, and the Language of 'Sexuality' in Leiden des jungen Werthers Carl Niekerk La Roche and Goethe: Gender, Genre, and Authorship Maryann Piel The Persistence of Bias in Eighteenth-Century Studies Margaretmary Daley Things of Art and Amor: Mediation in Goethe's Römische Elegien Sebastian Meixner and Carolin Rocks Reading Performatively: Disruptive Gestures in Heinrich von Kleist Katherine Pollock NEW DIRECTIONS Re-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 Studies Birgit Tautz Black Actors: Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Decolonial Fantasies Patricia 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 Germany Sigrid Köhler and Claudia Nitzschke FORUM Unexpected Bodies in the Eighteenth Century Introduction and Select Bibliography Patricia Anne Simpson and Birgit Tautz Mind over Body? Stigma, Staring, and the Self Anna C. Spafford Unexpected Bodies of Water: On the "Blue" Goethezeit Benjamin D. Schluter Queering Material Nature: Bewitched Bodies and the Limits of the Enlightenment Melissa Sheedy Plants as Unexpected Bodies Heather Sullivan Euphorion as an Aesthetic Body Heidi Grek Book Reviews