This volume's Forum section focuses on new directions in eighteenth-century German studies, alongside articles on a diverse range of topics concerning Goethe and the literature and arts of his age.The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, showcasing North American and international scholarship on Goethe and other authors and aspects of the Goethezeit. Volume 28 features articles on several of Goethe's signature works (Xenien, Wahlverwandtschaften, Faust), unified by their innovative approaches. It also includes a Forum section seeking to prompt discussion of new directions in eighteenth-century German studies. An essay documenting Goethe's engagement with China and another on Goethe's legacy in post-WWII Argentina emphasize these new directions. Other essays highlight Goethe's inter-arts approaches (music,theater, collecting); interdisciplinary intersections of eighteenth-century literary studies with gender and social history; media theory; and renewed emphasis on materialism. The latter is the focus of a recently convened collaboration on early nineteenth-century inventories presented in this volume. The customary book review section rounds out the volume.

Eclectic Dichotomies in K. P. Moritz's Aesthetic, Pedagogical, and Therapeutic WorldsSturm und Drang Comedy and the Enlightenment TraditionHeaven Help Us! Journals! Calendars!: Goethe and Schiller's Xenien as Circulatory InterventionBetween Nanjing and Weimar: Goethe's Metaphysical CorrespondencesProjection and Concealment: Goethe's Introduction of the Mask to the Weimar StageEmbarrassment and Individual Identity in Goethe's WahlverwandtschaftenThe Daisy Oracle: A New Gretchenfrage in Goethe's FaustGoethes Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil als Bruch: Zur Semantik des Zauberbegriffs im ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert"Ächt antike Denkmale"?: Goethe and the Hemsterhuis Gem CollectionBestseller und Erlebniskultur: Neue medienästhetische Ansätze bei Gisbert Ter-Nedden und Robert Vellusig verdeutlicht an Romanadaptionen von Franz von HeufeldPapierdenken: Blasche, Fröbel, and the Lessons of Nineteenth-Century Paper ModelingThe Men Who Knew Too Much: Reading Goethe's "Erlkönig" in Light of HitchcockGenius and Bloodsucker: Napoleon, Goethe, and Caroline de la Motte FouquéInstrument or Inspiration? Commemorating the 1949 Goethe Year in ArgentinaMedia Inventories of the Nineteenth Century: A Report from Two WorkshopsIntroduction: Directions in Eighteenth-Century German StudiesMedical Humanities and the Eighteenth CenturyDisability Studies and New Directions in Eighteenth-Century German StudiesGoethe's Talking Books: Print Culture and the Problem of Literary OralityThree Observations and Three Possible Directions: Musical and Eighteenth-Century StudiesLessing and Kotzebue: A Black Studies Approach to Reading the Eighteenth CenturyLaw and Literature: Codes as Colonizing Texts and Legal Ideas in Anthropocene WorksJohann Wolfgang Goethe, Migrant? or Debunking the Myth of 1955"Goethe Boom" Films: Bildung ReloadedBook Reviews