Background

Langbaum, Robert Woodrow Son of Murray and Nettie (Moskowitz) Langbaum.

Education

AB, Cornell University, 1947. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1954.

Career

Instructor English Cornell University, 1950-1955, assistant professor, 1955-1960. Associate professor University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1960-1963, professor English, 1963—1967, James Branch Cabell professor English and American literature, 1967—1999, professor emeritus, since 1999. Visiting professor Columbia University, summer 1960, 65-66, Harvard University, summer 1965.

Member supervising committee English Institute, 1970-1971, chairman, 1972. Member Christian Gauss Book Award Committee, 1984-1986. United States Information Service lecturer Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, 1988.

Served to 1st lieutenant United States Army, 1942-1946.

Works

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  • The Word from Below: Essays on Modern Literature and Culture

    (Langbaum has revised his 1970 collection of essays, "The ...)

  • Thomas Hardy in Our Time

    ( Taking into account the latest criticism, Langbaum disc...)

  • The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition

    (Followup edition to the 1957 hardcover copy.)

  • The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition

    (Book by Langbaum, Robert)

  • The Mysteries of Identity: A Theme in Modern Literature (Phoenix Series)

    (Literary Criticism.)

  • The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition
  • The Poetry of Experience the Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition
  • The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature
  • The Modern Spirit Essay On The Continuity Of Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Literature
  • The modern spirit; essays on the continuity of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature [by] Robert Langbaum
  • Thomas Hardy in Our Time
  • [(Thomas Hardy in Our Time)] [Author: Robert Langbaum] published on (August, 1997)
  • [(Thomas Hardy in Our Time)] [Author: Robert Langbaum] published on (December, 1994)

• Other Work

  • Author: The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition, 1957 (Spanish translations 1996), The Gayety of Vision: A Study of Isak Dinesen's Art (Danish translations 1964), 1964, The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature, 1970, The Mysteries of Identity: A Theme in Modern Literature, 1977, The Word From Below: Essays on Modern Literature and Culture, 1987, Thomas Hardy in Our Time, 1995. Editor: The Tempest (Shakespeare), 1964. Anthology The Victorian Age: Essays in History and in Social and Literary Criticism, 1967.
    
    Member editorial board Victorian Poetry, since 1963, New Literature History, since 1969, Bulletin Research in Humanities, since 1977, Studies in English Literature, since 1978, Southern Humanities Review, since 1979, Studies in Browning and His Circle, since 1987, Victorian Literature and Culture, since 1991, Symbiosis, since 1995.

Membership

Member Modern Language Association (delegate assembly 1979-1981), American Association of University Professors, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Association Literature Scholars and Critics, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Francesca Levi Vidale, November 5, 1950. 1 child, Donata Emily.

Father:

Murray Langbaum

Mother:

Nettie (Moskowitz) Langbaum

Spouse:

Francesca Levi Vidale

child:

Donata Emily Langbaum