Volume 12 is dedicated to founding editor Thomas P. Saine, and includes essays on Goethe's novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller.The Goethe Yearbook, first published in 1982, is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America and is dedicated to North American Goethe scholarship. It 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 ofrecent publications on the period, and is important for all scholars of 18th-century literature. Volume 12 honors founding editor Thomas P. Saine with contributions from prominent scholars such as Ehrhard Bahr, Benjamin Bennett, Dieter Borchmeyer, Jane Brown, Jill Kowalik, Ruth Kluger, Meredith Lee, John McCarthy, Jeff Sammons, Helmut Schneider, Hans Vaget, and more. The volume includes essays on Goethe's novels, plays, and poems, the Ilmpark, Bach, Ossian, Goethe reception, and Schiller.Simon J. Richter is associate professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is associate professor of German at the University of Utah.

Ossian-Rezeption von Michael Denis bis Goethe: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Primitivismus in Deutschland - Dr Edward R BahrWerther, the Undead - Hans Rudolf VagetWho Is the Editor in Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers? - Christoph E SchweitzerSubstitution, Self-blame, and Self-deception in Goethe's Stella: Ein Schauspiel für Liebende - Ellis Dye - DECEASED IN 2017"Myth and Psychology": The Curing of Orest in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris - Cyrus HamlinPoetic Intentions and Musical Production: "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" - Meredith LeeDichter, Herrscher, Natur: Die Entstehung des Ilmparks und das Bild des Parks in Goethes Dichtung - Helmut J. SchneiderGoethe, Rousseau, the Novel, and the Origins of Pyschoanalysis - Jane K. BrownTrauma and Memory in the Wahlverwandtschaften - Jill KowalikEin anderes Gretchen-Abenteuer: Das Ende der rhetorischen Poesiekonzention und das fünfte Buch von Goethes Dichtung und WahrheitDichtung und Wahrheit - Uwe-K. KetelsenSpeech, Writing, and Identity in the West-Östlicher Divan - Benjamin K. BennettDie Pforte entriegeln: Goethe's "Urworte Orpheus" - Ruth Kluger"Laß mich hören, laß mich fühlen": Johann Sebastian Bach im Urteil Goethes - Dieter BorchmeyerSchiller the Killer: Wilhelm Tell and the Decriminalization of Murder - Gail K. HartSchiller als Historiograph: Disciplining History - John A. McCarthy"Heiliger Goethe, bitt' für mich": Friedrich Spielhagen and the Anxiety of Influence - Jeffery L. SammonsGoethes kleiner Vetter: Erinnerung an den Frankfurter Abenteurer Johann Konrad Friedrich - Hans-Wolf Jaeger