University Press Copublishing Division / Bucknell University Press
Pages: 137
Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61148-350-5 • Hardback • June 2010 • $99.00 • (£76.00)
Eugene Stelzig is distinguished teaching professor of English at SUNY Geneseo.
Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) is perhaps best known for his profiles of prominent men of letters in his, 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a portrait of Robinson as life writer for the five years he spent in Germany (1800-1805), drawing on both published and unpublished materials.
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• Winner, Winner of the 2010 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize for the year's best book in Romanticism studies