Thomas Kopfermann looks at Ernst Jandl's critical deformations of linguistic material provided by Goethe (in his 'ein gleiches' and 'UBE!'), and ideological material provided by those claiming to be the guardiansof his inheritance (in the play diehumanisten). Jobst Sch6ne edits and comments on the rental contract for Goethe's house on the Frauenplan;we learn that in i782 the rent for it was the equivalent of DM 1200 per month. Anne Frommanncloses the volume with some aphoristicreflectionson education promptedby passagesfrom Goethe's lettersand conversations. ST PETER'S COLLEGE, OXFORD K. F. HILLIARD Schnittpunkt Romantik. Text-undQuellenstudien zurLiteratur des19. Jahrhunderts: Festschrift fur SibyllevonSteinsdorff Ed. by WOLFGANG BUNZEL,KONRADFEILCHENFELDT and WALTERSCHMITZ.Ttibingen: Niemeyer. I997. viii + 354 pp. DM I54. The scope of this collection of essays ranges from the early Goethezeit through the nineteenth century, alwayswith referenceto Romanticism. There are two kindsof contribution, editorial and interpretative,and the strengthof the volume lies in its presentation and commentary of new or relativelyunknown source material. The few textual interpretations,of DasMarmorbild (byHeide Hollmer and AlbertMeier) and Derarme Spielmann (byKonrad Feilchenfeldt),produce no startlingnew insights: the ambivalence of Christianityand Greek antiquityin the former and the debate aboutprose and poetry in the latterarefamiliarground. HartmutReinhardtargues for Egmont as a latentlyRomantic text, thus revisitingthe debate on Classicismand Romanticism, and Martin Huber draws attention to Jean Paul's Schulmeisterlein MariaWutzas a mainstreamtext within the author'soeuvre.The aim, to reinterpret compositional weak points as meta-reflection, is not, however, sustained. More substantial is Gerhard Lauer's analysis of Bettine von Arnim's representation of Jews, which represents a notable contribution to the interpretation of her work. With reference to the Dimonenbuch, an ambivalence towardsthe question ofJewish emancipation is identified and seen as symptomaticof the failurein the firsthalf of the century to come to terms with the issue. Bettine's work is unsuccessfulas she triesto romanticizeafterRomanticism. Bettine is the subject of several contributions in the volume, a reflection of the increasing interest in her person and writing. Ingrid Leitner describes light constellations in her Goethes Briefwechsel miteinemKindeas attempts to confuse the reader and convey insight in an intuitive, poetic way. Like Lauer, Leitner argues that Bettine poeticizes reality in a radical way. This argument is well known, particularlywith reference to her relationship with Goethe, and it is balanced in Bettine scholarship, and in this volume, against the view of Bettine as pragmatic social reformer (a view that Lauer addresses and rebuts with reference to the Damonenbuch). Heinz Hartl edits some of the correspondence andjournalisticwork from the period 1844-I 848, left out of the most recent edition of Bettine'swork, to illustrateher social role, and his commentary provides useful contextual material. Renate Moering traces the differentstages in the creation of a published fictional text by Achim von Arnim to which Bettine contributed. In her commentary Moering highlights the significance of these stages by investigating diverging authorial intention. Further editing work on Bettine has been done by Matthias Ferber,who reproduces an extract from Poetische Frauenbilder, a text published by August Nodnagel that is not easily accessible and therefore not widely known, describing his reaction to Bettine among other women. Her reaction is also Thomas Kopfermann looks at Ernst Jandl's critical deformations of linguistic material provided by Goethe (in his 'ein gleiches' and 'UBE!'), and ideological material provided by those claiming to be the guardiansof his inheritance (in the play diehumanisten). Jobst Sch6ne edits and comments on the rental contract for Goethe's house on the Frauenplan;we learn that in i782 the rent for it was the equivalent of DM 1200 per month. Anne Frommanncloses the volume with some aphoristicreflectionson education promptedby passagesfrom Goethe's lettersand conversations. ST PETER'S COLLEGE, OXFORD K. F. HILLIARD Schnittpunkt Romantik. Text-undQuellenstudien zurLiteratur des19. Jahrhunderts: Festschrift fur SibyllevonSteinsdorff Ed. by WOLFGANG BUNZEL,KONRADFEILCHENFELDT and WALTERSCHMITZ.Ttibingen: Niemeyer. I997. viii + 354 pp. DM I54. The scope of this collection of essays ranges from the early Goethezeit through the nineteenth century, alwayswith referenceto Romanticism. There are two kindsof contribution, editorial and interpretative,and the strengthof the volume lies in its presentation and commentary of new or relativelyunknown source material. The few textual interpretations,of DasMarmorbild (byHeide Hollmer and AlbertMeier) and Derarme Spielmann (byKonrad...