Schwarz, Daniel R.

Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He is the author of the recent "In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century" (2008) in the prestigious Blackwell Manifesto series, " Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930" (2004), " Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture" (2003), as well as the widely read "Imagining the Holocaust" (1999). His prior books include "Rereading Conrad" (2001); "Reconfig...