**Henry Crabb Robinson: Diary of a Pedestrian Tour (1801)**.
Edited by James Vigus.

MHRA Critical Texts Vol. 34
ISBN 978-1-907322-48-8
Spring 2012
Pbk £9.99 / $15.99 / EUR11.99

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Having inherited enough money to free him from an arduous clerkship, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) travelled to Germany in 1800, soon attaining remarkable proficiency in the language. By 1803 he would become the leading English mediator of German philosophy and aesthetics. The long walking tour of 1801 was the Bildungsreise that prepared Robinson for this work of cultural mediation. Sometimes alone, often with companions such as the young Romantic Christian Brentano and the diarist Johann Gottfried Seume, Robinson paced through myriad towns and villages in Saxony, making lengthy excursions to Dresden and Prague and adventurously ignoring the threat of robbery. Yet the action was not physical only: it was on this tour, as his Diary reveals, that the studious Robinson became a ‘convert’ to the new philosophy of ‘Kantianism’. Indeed, the tour was foundational in several respects: Robinson would later achieve fame as a diarist, and this is the first notebook in which he systematically preserves daily observations, anecdotes and conversations.

James Vigus is postdoctoral research fellow at the Department for English and American Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

Henry Crabb Robinson: Diary of a Pedestrian Tour (1801). Edited by James Vigus.

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**Henry Crabb Robinson: Diary of a Pedestrian Tour (1801)**.
Edited by James Vigus.