The Miscellaneous Early Diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson

• Applicant: Philipp Hunnekuhl, Ph.D.
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies ; German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature) ; History of Philosophy
• Term: from 2014 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 269394954

The primary objective of the present renewal proposal is the ascertainment of factual accuracy across the scholarly edition entitled "The Early Diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). In line with my original proposal and OUP’s stipulations, I have so far produced a complete second draft of this edition’s running text that encompasses wide-ranging preliminary annotations. The complexity of the details encountered in these diaries, however, has significantly exceeded my expectations, as well as those of the Series Editors behind the Robinson Project (www.crabbrobinson.co.uk). A considerable amount of further empirical work is required in order to verify the greatest possible number of people, places, and works of literature mentioned by Robinson. This is of particular importance since Robinson’s transnational network of friends and acquaintances is among the largest of the Romantic period, including many authors of varying degrees of popularity whose works he also frequently read and discussed. Alongside this verification process, I shall resolve the remaining editorial issues that owe primarily to the variations in Robinson’s diary-keeping practice between 1790 and 1810 – in particular those issues relating to the many substantial passages written in German, the accessibility of their translations for an English-speaking audience, as well as the most economic and yet lucid placing of annotations with respect to both the original passage and its translation. In addition to this, I also intend to publish an academic monograph (entitled "Henry Crabb Robinson and European Romanticism: Critic, Comparatist, Literator, 1790–1811") that is based on my doctoral thesis, and which has been substantiated through my on-going work on Robinson’s early diaries. The research for this monograph is complete, three chapters have been drafted, and I have submitted the book proposal to OUP.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Cooperation Partner: Professorin Dr. Ute Berns