Features a special forum on imperialism and race as well as articles and book reviews concerning Goethe and other writers of his age.

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 ¿al¿l al-D¿n R¿m¿ - 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 TuckerForum: 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