Langbaum, Robert (Woodrow)
LANGBAUM, Robert (Woodrow)
LANGBAUM, Robert (Woodrow). American, b. 1924. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: James Branch Cabell Professor of English and American Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1967- (Associate Professor, 1960-63, and Professor, 1963-67); Instructor in English, 1950-55, and Assistant Professor, 1955-60, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Member, Editorial Board, Victorian Poetry, 1963-, New Literary History, 1969-, Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 1977-, Studies in English Literature, 1978-, Southern Humanities Review, 1979-, Studies in Browning and His Circle, 1987-, Victorian Literature and Culture, 1991-, Browning Studies, 1993. Publications: The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition, 1957, 1986; The Gayety of Vision: A Study of Isak Dinesen's Art, 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, by Shakespeare, 1964; The Victorian Age: Essays in History and in Social and Literary Criticism, 1967. Address: Dept. of English, University of Virginia, PO Box 400121, 219 Bryan Hall, Charlottesville, VA 22904, U.S.A. Online address: rwl8v@virginia.edu