Wednesday 28th October, 2026

0:00am–:00

public

free

not required

Friends of DWL Annual Lectures

Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

The 'idle' life of Henry Crabb Robinson: Suffolk dissenter, European traveller, lawyer, literator

James Vigus is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on British Romanticism, especially its literary and philosophical connections to the European Continent, and its links to religious dissent. His book publications include Platonic Coleridge (2009) and a critical edition of Henry Crabb Robinson’s Essays on Kant, Schelling, and German Aesthetics (2010); (co-)edited essay collections include Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics (2013); his articles include several on Robinson. Stemming from a fellowship at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study in 2021-22, he is researching British travellers to Hamburg-Altona after the French Revolution. This project so far includes articles on Henry Crabb Robinson’s war journalism in Altona in 1807, and an article on Mary Wollstonecraft in Hamburg for the European Romantic Review.

Dr. James Vigus, Queen Mary University of London

James Vigus is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on British Romanticism, especially its literary and philosophical connections to the European Continent, and its links to religious dissent. His book publications include Platonic Coleridge (2009) and a critical edition of Henry Crabb Robinson’s Essays on Kant, Schelling, and German Aesthetics (2010); (co-)edited essay collections include Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics (2013); his articles include several on Robinson. Stemming from a fellowship at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study in 2021-22, he is researching British travellers to Hamburg-Altona after the French Revolution. This project so far includes articles on Henry Crabb Robinson’s war journalism in Altona in 1807, and an article on Mary Wollstonecraft in Hamburg for the European Romantic Review.