SARAH VANDEGRIFT ELDRIDGE (d. 2025) was Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ELEANOR TER HORST is Associate Professor of German, French and Comparative Literature at the University of South Alabama. PETER HÖYNG is Professor of German at Emory University. CARL NIEKERK is Professor of German / Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. MICHAEL SWELLANDER is Assistant Teaching Professor of German at Skidmore College, NY. BRIAN TUCKER is Professor of German at Wabash College, IN.

• Editors' Preface - Eleanor ter Horst and Sarah Vandegrift EldridgeEssaysThe End of the Affair: Goethe's Gretchen "Roman" - Elizabeth PowersThe (Un)Problematic Ground of Reality: The Goethe-Hegel Auseinandersetzung on and through Ǧalāl al-Dīn Rūmī - Alberto MerzariIphigenie in der DDR. Jochen Bergs Im Taurerland als Mythenkorrektur von Goethes Iphigenie auf Tauris - Malte Hendrik MeyerEichendorff's Echoes: Sound and Transience in the Romantic Era - Brian Tucker Forum: Race and Imperialism in the Goethe EraRace, Imperialism, and German Intellectual History: Reflections toward a Rethinking of the Canon - Michael Saman"Race" as an Enlightenment Problem - Carl NiekerkBy Land or by Sea: German Orientalism, Colonialism, and Racism - Daniel PurdyKant's Four Examples: On South Sea Islanders, Tahitians, and Other Cautionary Tales for the Case of 'Rusting Talents' - Jennifer MenschRediscovering Kant as a Reader: The Early Physical Geography Lectures - Michael OlsonKant's Race Theory, Kleist, and Disciplinary Boundaries - Sally Hatch GrayPoetry of Empire: "Der Wilde," Indenture, and Indigeneity around 1800 - Patricia Anne SimpsonGoethe's Faust and Sorge in the Age of Imperialism and Colonialism - Matthew ChildsBook Reviews

SARAH VANDEGRIFT ELDRIDGE (d. 2025) was Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ELEANOR TER HORST is Associate Professor of German, French and Comparative Literature at the University of South Alabama. PETER HÖYNG is Professor of German at Emory University. CARL NIEKERK is Professor of German / Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. MICHAEL SWELLANDER is Assistant Teaching Professor of German at Skidmore College, NY. BRIAN TUCKER is Professor of German at Wabash College, IN.

• Editors' Preface - Eleanor ter Horst and Sarah Vandegrift EldridgeEssaysThe End of the Affair: Goethe's Gretchen "Roman" - Elizabeth PowersThe (Un)Problematic Ground of Reality: The Goethe-Hegel Auseinandersetzung on and through Ǧalāl al-Dīn Rūmī - Alberto MerzariIphigenie in der DDR. Jochen Bergs Im Taurerland als Mythenkorrektur von Goethes Iphigenie auf Tauris - Malte Hendrik MeyerEichendorff's Echoes: Sound and Transience in the Romantic Era - Brian Tucker Forum: Race and Imperialism in the Goethe EraRace, Imperialism, and German Intellectual History: Reflections toward a Rethinking of the Canon - Michael Saman"Race" as an Enlightenment Problem - Carl NiekerkBy Land or by Sea: German Orientalism, Colonialism, and Racism - Daniel PurdyKant's Four Examples: On South Sea Islanders, Tahitians, and Other Cautionary Tales for the Case of 'Rusting Talents' - Jennifer MenschRediscovering Kant as a Reader: The Early Physical Geography Lectures - Michael OlsonKant's Race Theory, Kleist, and Disciplinary Boundaries - Sally Hatch GrayPoetry of Empire: "Der Wilde," Indenture, and Indigeneity around 1800 - Patricia Anne SimpsonGoethe's Faust and Sorge in the Age of Imperialism and Colonialism - Matthew ChildsBook Reviews

SARAH VANDEGRIFT ELDRIDGE (d. 2025) was Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. ELEANOR TER HORST is Associate Professor of German, French and Comparative Literature at the University of South Alabama. PETER HÖYNG is Professor of German at Emory University. CARL NIEKERK is Professor of German / Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. MICHAEL SWELLANDER is Assistant Teaching Professor of German at Skidmore College, NY. BRIAN TUCKER is Professor of German at Wabash College, IN.

• Editors' Preface - Eleanor ter Horst and Sarah Vandegrift EldridgeEssaysThe End of the Affair: Goethe's Gretchen "Roman" - Elizabeth PowersThe (Un)Problematic Ground of Reality: The Goethe-Hegel Auseinandersetzung on and through Ǧalāl al-Dīn Rūmī - Alberto MerzariIphigenie in der DDR. Jochen Bergs Im Taurerland als Mythenkorrektur von Goethes Iphigenie auf Tauris - Malte Hendrik MeyerEichendorff's Echoes: Sound and Transience in the Romantic Era - Brian Tucker Forum: Race and Imperialism in the Goethe EraRace, Imperialism, and German Intellectual History: Reflections toward a Rethinking of the Canon - Michael Saman"Race" as an Enlightenment Problem - Carl NiekerkBy Land or by Sea: German Orientalism, Colonialism, and Racism - Daniel PurdyKant's Four Examples: On South Sea Islanders, Tahitians, and Other Cautionary Tales for the Case of 'Rusting Talents' - Jennifer MenschRediscovering Kant as a Reader: The Early Physical Geography Lectures - Michael OlsonKant's Race Theory, Kleist, and Disciplinary Boundaries - Sally Hatch GrayPoetry of Empire: "Der Wilde," Indenture, and Indigeneity around 1800 - Patricia Anne SimpsonGoethe's Faust and Sorge in the Age of Imperialism and Colonialism - Matthew ChildsBook Reviews