This in honor of Dennis F. Mahoney’s sixty-fifth birthday is somewhat different from the standard : rather than present essays from various authors, this Festschrift collects twenty-one of Mahoney’s most important English-language publications on German Classicism and Romanticism published over the past thirty years.

Wolfgang Mieder is Professor of German and Folklore at the University of Vermont, where he has taught for many years together with his colleague and friend Dennis F. Mahoney. Mieder is known for his proverb studies: some of his more recent books include (2010), (2012), and (2015).

Contents: Goethe Seen Anew: Egon Günther’s Film – The Thematic Significance of Astrology in Schiller’s – The French Revolution as Volcano: Goethe and Georg Forster – Primeval Formation: Teaching with the Help of Goethe’s – Goethe’s Autobiographical Writings – Schiller’s : A Princely Experiment or, the Creation of a »«piritualist» – On the Periphery of Weimar Classicism: Passion, Patriarchy and Political Machinations in Caroline von Wolzogen’s (1797) and Barbara Honigmann’s (1991) – Adaptations in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: From «Classica» Parodies to Contemporary Politics – The French Revolution and the – «Painting the Red Flower Blue»: Developments in Research on the Novels of the Age of Goethe since 1968 – The Apprenticeship of the Reader: The of the «Age of Goethe» – The Channeling of a Literary Revolution: Goethe, Schiller, and the Genesis of German Romanticism – The Myth of Death and Resurrection in – Double into : The Genesis of the -Motif in the Novels of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann – «Stages of Enlightenment»: Lessing’s and Novalis’s – A «Schützenkönig» for Kuhschnappel: Social Reality and Wish Projection in Jean Paul’s – Human History as Natural History in Die and – «Was nicht ist, kann noch werden»: Proverbs and German Romanticism – Old, New, and (Un)Known Worlds: History and Fiction in Achim von Arnim’s and Edward P. Jones’s – Romanticizing the Everyday: Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower – Double Trouble: Uncanny Secrets in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s and Otto Ludwig’s .