Henry Crabb Robinson in Germany
Subtitle: a study in nineteenth-century life writing
By: Eugene Stelzig.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838757635
Subjects: Robinson, Henry Crabb, -- 1775-1867 -- Homes and haunts -- Germany; Robinson, Henry Crabb, -- 1775-1867 -- Criticism and interpretation; Autobiography; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Robinson as a life writer; title: Robinson and nineteenth-century autobiography; title: Robinson's early years; title: Robinson's German life: bildung as conversion; title: The first German phase: Frankfurt; title: Romantic friendship: the Serviere sisters; title: Footloose in Germany: literary lions and first Kant studies; title: Jena student and aspiring literator; title: Robinson as mediator and philosophical informant; title: Robinson's final year in Germany: Jena and Weimar; title: The English aftermath, or the failed literator.