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The Lessing Yearbook, the official publication of the Lessing Society, is a valuable source of information on German culture, literature, and thought of the eighteenth century. Articles are in German or English. Essays in past issues of the Lessing Yearbook have explored a wide variety of subjects pertaining to class and gender, identity formation, art in Lessing's work, and his philosophy on music and poetry. For more information on this and other journals published by Wayne State University Press, please turn to page 16 or visit our Web site at http://wsupress.Wayne.Edu. Also visit our Web site to purchase back issues of the Lessing Yearbook (Volumes XIII-XXXV, excluding Volume XXII that is out of print) as well as the Lessing Yearbook Index to Volumes I-XX and the Supplements compiled by Edward Dvoretzky. In addition to co-publishing the Lessing Journal, Wayne State University Press publishes titles in various aspects of German Studies. The Kritik: German Literary Theory and Culture Series, edited by Liliane Weissberg, contributes to current scholarship and brings together books from various disciplines to create a new forum for German Studies. New books in this series are featured on pages 8-10 of this catalog.