The Goethe Yearbook is published by the Goethe Society of North America, founded in 1980 to promote the study of Johann Wolfang von Goethe and his contemporaries, the so-called 'Goethezeit'. Originally conceived as a vehicle to present original English-language Goethe scholarship during the period of Cold War political tensions, when the most prestigious Goethe publication, the Goethe Jahrbuch, was not open to most Western scholars, the Goethe Yearbook...