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 Professor office: 236 Tate phone: 573-884-7038 email: schwartzrb@missouri.edu web: www.richardbschwartz.com office hours: by appointment Research and teaching areas: 18th-century literature and intellectual history; creative writing Richard SchwartzRichard B. Schwartz is the author of Samuel Johnson and the New Science (University of Wisconsin Press, 1971), Samuel Johnson and the Problem of Evil (University of Wisconsin Press, 1975), Boswell's Johnson: A Preface to the Life (University of Wisconsin Press, 1978), Daily Life in Johnson's London (University of Wisconsin Press, 1983), After the Death of Literature (Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (University of Missouri Press, 2002), four novels, Frozen Stare (St. Martin's Press, 1989), The Last Voice You Hear (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2001), After the Fall (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2002), Into the Dark (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2002), and a collection of stories, The Biggest City in America (University of Akron Press, 1999), and is the editor of The Plays of Arthur Murphy, 4 vols. (Garland, 1979) and Theory and Tradition in Eighteenth Century-Studies (Southern Illinois University Press, 1990). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Along with his work in eighteenth-century literature and intellectual history, he is interested in fiction writing, nonfiction prose writing, and contemporary American genre fiction. Education Selected Publications
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