1st Edition

E. L. Doctorow

By Paul Levine Copyright 1985
98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

During his lifetime E. L. Doctorow was a remarkable phenomenon among contemporary American novelists. He was a serious writer who was popular, a political writer who was a stylist, an original writer who was highly eclectic and an historical writer who invented the past. In this study, originally published in 1985, Paul Levine follows Doctorow’s progress as a novelist and traces the development... Read more

General Editors’ Preface.  Preface and Acknowledgements.  A Note on the Texts.  1. Politics and Imagination  2. Fiction and Formulas  3. Fiction and Radicalism  4. Fiction and History  5. Fiction and the American Dream  6. Lives of Poets.  Appendix: Doctorow on Film.  Notes.  Bibliography.

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Paul Levine