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