As the new membership year begins and our first of three annual issues of Publications of the English Goethe Society goes to press, the EGS is introducing a 2-year free membership for postgraduate students (Master’s and PhD/DPhil) in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The free membership will end after two years (or when PG study ends with awarding of degree, whichever comes first), after which the member will be offered either the special membership rate for students (₤12 annually) or full membership (₤24). Colleagues are asked to circulate this offer among PGs who may be interested. Students wishing to take up this offer should email scanned evidence of enrolment along with postal address to the Membership Secretary, Dr. Ernest Schonfield, at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> This should be done as soon as possible in order for the student to be placed on the mailing list for the first issue of PEGS.
One of the three yearly issues of PEGS contains the papers read before the Society at its London meetings in the previous academic year, suitably revised as research articles. A second issue is made up of peer-reviewed articles on any topic in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century German literature and culture or their reception in later periods. The third issue is more flexible, usually containing papers from a UK conference or further open-submission articles.
The EGS was founded in 1886. It is the oldest learned society in the UK dedicated to things German, and, after the ones in Vienna and Weimar, the third oldest Goethe society in the world. The Society's chief aim is to promote the discussion and study of Goethe's works and ideas, through meetings, symposia, and publications. But its interests extend beyond Goethe to eighteenth and early nineteenth-century German literature and culture in general, and the continuation of those traditions in modern German-speaking culture. For more information, including this year’s programme, visit our website at http://englishgoethesociety.org/ For content of recent PEGS issues, see http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ypeg20/current The first issue of 2017, due to be published at the end of February, contains the following papers read before the Society in 2016-2017:
A Mutually Gratifying Relationship: Goethe and Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
Peter James Bowman
The Bankruptcy of Love: Schiller’s Early Ethics
Laura Anna Macor
‘Winterabende’: A Romantic and Post-Romantic Motif in Friedrich, Büchner and Stifter
Ian Cooper
Pink Ink: Zur Funktion der Farbe Rosa in Thomas Manns Roman Lotte in Weimar
Eckart Goebel
The second issue will contain open-submission essays on Herder and Spinoza, Goethe and the Mannheim Antikensaal, Goethe and China, and a Wilhelm Hauff story. The third issue will gather papers given at the Enlightenment symposium in honour of our President Jim Reed on his 80th birthday (to be held in Oxford on 18-19 April).
With best wishes,
Angus Nicholls, Kevin Hilliard, W. Daniel Wilson (Honorary Secretaries)
T. J. Reed (President)
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