New, interdisciplinary essays on an array of topics ranging from Goethe and mineralogy to theories of masculinity around 1800.

Goethe's Reception of Ulrich von Hutten - Yasser Derwiche Djazaerly
The School of Shipwrecks: Improvisation in Wilhelm Meisters theatrilische Sendung and the Lehrjahre - Jocelyn Holland
The Sublime, "Über den Granit," and the Prehistory of Goethe's Science - Elizabeth Powers
The Building in Bildung: Goethe, Palladio, and the Architectural Media - Daniel Purdy
Virgilian Retrospection in Goethe's Alexis und Dora - Robert Germany
Typologies of Repetition, Reflection, and Recurrence: Interpreting the Novella in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften - Albert E Gurganus
Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did? - Peter J. Schwartz
Zum Verhältnis von Selbstsein und Miteinandersein - Borge Kristiansen
Schiller's Die Räuber: Revenge, Sacrifice, and the Terrible Price of Absolute Freedom - Christoph E Schweitzer
Wallensteins Tod as a "Play of Mourning": Death and Mourning in the Aesthetics of Schiller's Classicism - Ehrhard Bahr
The New Man: Theories of Masculinity around 1800 - Peter Uwe Hohendahl