Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) is perhaps best known for his profiles of prominent men of letters in his Diaries, Reminiscences, and Correspondence, but Stelzig (English, State U. of New York
at Geneseo) argues that he deserves to be considered in his own right as an important "life writer" (i.e. a producer of writings that inscribe subjectivity, which includes autobiographies,
diaries, journals, memoirs, and letters) of the 19th century, even though only a small part of his writings have yet to appear in print. In this work, Stelzig offers a portrait of Robinson as
life writer for the five years he spent in Germany (1800-1805), drawing on both published and unpublished materials. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation 穢2010
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