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The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is the flagship publication of the Goethe Society and is dedicated to North American Goethe scholarship. To view the contents of past volumes select from the pull-down menu to the left (or click here).

To view selected books of interest by Canadian and US members of the Society 1970-2005 (itself a work in progress), click here.

The Yearbook aims above all to encourage and publish original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcoming contributions from scholars around the world. The book review section seeks likewise to evaluate a wide selection of recent publications on the period, and should be of interest to all scholars of 18th-century literature.

Originally conceived as a vehicle for Goethe criticism in English during the Cold War political tensions, when the most prestigious Goethe publication, the Goethe Jahrbuch, was not available to most Western scholars, the Yearbook subsequently gained the respect of the international community under the editorship of Thomas P. Saine. Under his successors, Simon Richter and Daniel Purdy, the Yearbook went to an annual publication schedule. Since 2013 it is being edited by Adrian Daub and Elisabeth Krimmer. Birgit Tautz is serving as the book review editor. See current members of the Editorial Advisory Board.
  

The Yearbook invites submissions in English or German on Goethe, his works, his contemporaries, or the period 1770-1832 in general. All manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the Yearbook's style sheet. Manuscript submissions should be no longer than thirty pages. Inquiries or manuscripts should be directed to Adrian Daub and Elisabeth Krimmer. Books for review should be sent to the Book Review Editor, Birgit Tautz, at the Department of German, Bowdoin College, 7700 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04101-8477.

March 6, 2013

Volume 20 of the Goethe Yearbook is currently in the production stage and will ship before summer’s end. It will contain a special section on Goethe’s lyric poetry with contributions from leading scholars. The essays incorporate a range of new methodologies that provide innovative readings of Goethe’s most important poems, including contributions by Benjamin Bennett on Faust and Daniel Wilson on the West-östliche Divan. Volume 20 also includes essays on Götz von Berlichingen, the Sturm-und-Drang sublime, the Nibelungenlied’s place within Weltliteratur, as well as an examination of Schiller’s notion of freedom.

Volume 21 of the Goethe Yearbook is off to a very promising start and will go to editorial review in June of 2013. We have received a large number of high-caliber manuscripts and are particularly delighted by the diversity of approaches to Goethezeit literature. Although we are well on our way, there is room for more articles. We urge all colleagues in the greater field of eighteenth-century studies to consider submitting their work to the Yearbook. It is our goal to present a truly inclusive Yearbook that offers close readings of canonical and non-canonical texts, contributions to intellectual history and gender studies, as well as comparative and interdisciplinary work, in particular, on music and the visual arts, but also reception studies, religion and science.

We are also interested in including articles centered on thematic clusters and encourage scholars to suggest topics for such clusters. For volume 22, for example, we are planning a special section on ecocriticism compiled by Dalia Nassar and Luke Fisher.

Please direct all correspondence to Adrian Daub at daub@stanford.edu and Elisabeth Krimmer at emkrimmer@ucdavis.edu. Manuscript 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.

As always, the entire run of back issues is available on Project MUSE.

Adrian Daub
Stanford University

Elisabeth Krimmer
University of California at Davis

March 6, 2013

As always, I encourage you to let me know if there are particular areas of research that you are interested in reviewing for the Goethe Yearbook. Please send books for review and suggestions for books for review to

Professor Birgit Tautz
Department of German
Bowdoin College
7700 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04101-8477
Telephone: (207) 798-7079
Fax: (207) 725-3348
btautz@bowdoin.edu