Volume 30 features special sections on "unexpected bodies" and on new directions in eighteenth-century studies (on Enlightenment, whiteness, and race), as well as a range of other articles.

Edited by Patricia A. Simpson and Birgit Tautz

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