Guide to the Robert Langford Montgomery papers MS.C.026

Finding aid prepared by Alexandra Bisio, 2017.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
(cc) 2017
The UCI Libraries
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University of California, Irvine
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Contributing Institution: Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Robert Langford Montgomery papers
Creator: Montgomery, Robert Langford
Identifier/Call Number: MS.C.026
Physical Description: 4.5 Linear Feet (5 Boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1944-2006
Abstract: This collection includes the personal and professional papers of Robert Langford Montgomery Jr., professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. It is composed of materials primarily related to Montgomery's education and career as a Shakespearian scholar. Included are personal memorabilia, student notes and notebooks, correspondence, research notes, annotated texts, essays, lectures, reviews, and books.
Language of Material: English .

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Preferred Citation

Robert Langford Montgomery papers. MS-C026. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Margaret K. Montgomery, 2015.

Collection Scope and Content Summary

This collection includes the personal and professional papers of Robert Langford Montgomery Jr., professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. It is primarily composed of materials related to Montgomery's education and career as a Shakespearian scholar. Included are personal memorabilia, student notes and notebooks, correspondence, research notes, annotated texts, essays, lectures, reviews, and books.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Critical theory -- Archives.
Comparative literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California -- Irvine
Critical theory -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California -- Irvine
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616—Criticism and interpretation

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Box 1 1944-2006

Series Scope and Content Summary

This box contains early correspondence (1949-1965), high school, military, and Harvard student documents (1944-1958), Paris notebooks (1951-1952), and UC Press editorial board (1995-1996).
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Box 2 1944-2006

Series Scope and Content Summary

This box contains Montgomery student notes (1944-1951), confidential correspondence on segregation at the University of Texas (1961), publisher correspondence, papers - Penn State Press (1990-1991); lectures, articles, reviews, and notes - MSS of articles, lectures, reviews (1957-1966), offprints and photocopies articles and reviews (1966-1989), Keats - Fall of Hyperion (1954), Crashaw (1951), Encyclopedia - Poetics (1989), lecture on the play in the fields of the lord, Troilus and Cressida notes, offprints and notes (1966-1987), notes (1994-2004), Whores (1977), notes; book - The Reader: A Study of Form and Content (inserted offprint and note); and 17th - 18th century notes.
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Box 3 1944-2006

Series Scope and Content Summary

This box contains 17th - 18th century notes, Prof. Shakespeare, Sidney Iaupe etc., Shakespeare's Sonnets, Petrarch, and Sonnet sequence.
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Box 4 1944-2006

Series Scope and Content Summary

This box contains book reviews, articles, correspondence, notes and writing, speeches and talks, publication file for Perfect Ceremony Love Rites, Montgomery's CV and bibliography, and Montgomery theses (PhD and bachelors).
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Box 5 1944-2006

Series Scope and Content Summary

This box contains books (1983,1992, 2006), text analysis and notes.