The Literature of Weimar Classicism.(Book review)

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The Literature of Weimar Classicism. Ed. by SIMON RICHTER. (Camden House History of German Literature,7) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2005. xii+407pp. $90; 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-57113-249-9.

In an essay published in 2000, Elisabeth Krimmer, a contributor to the present volume, wrote: 'The idea of having to combine Cultural Studies and Goethe's Weimar is enough to make a scholar's hair stand on end [...]. For everything Cultural Studies stands for seems to be blatantly contradicted by everything eighteenth-century Weimar has come to symbolize.' Weimar ...

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