Henry Crabb Robinson: Romantic Comparatist, 1790-1811

by Philipp Hunnekuhl

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) earned his place in literary history as a perceptive diarist from 1811 onwards. Drawing substantially on hitherto unpublished manuscript sources, this book discusses his formal and informal engagement with a wide variety of English and European literature prior to this point. Robinson emerges as a pioneering literary critic whose unique philosophical erudition underpinned his activity as a cross-cultural disseminator...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178962178X
• ISBN13: 9781789621785
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"