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Anakreontische Aufklärung. Ed. Manfred Beetz & Hans-Joachim Kertscher. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005. 323 pp. €98. ISBN 3–484–81028–9, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, JANUARY 2007, Page 93, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cql118
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The title of this collection of scholarly essays implies that German literature of the rococo period was characterised by the synergies of literary rococo (Anakreontik) and enlightenment and not – as it has been claimed since Goethe's and Schiller's times – by a dichotomy of the two. Obviously, both the writers and the reading public formed a rather small and closely-knit community in the German-speaking lands around 1750 and the overlaps were certainly greater than the differences. This is not news to scholars of eighteenth-century German literature, but they will be interested in a number of the essays which cover poets such as Gleim (twice), Ebert, Jacobi and Krause; readers of Anakreontik such as Wieland and Goethe, and topics including the representation of antiquity, praise for the muses, voyeurism and sexuality.