Introduction
A.E.L.Doctorow'' s Life and Literary Career
B.Doctorow Studies in America and China
C.Theoretical Frame, Structure and Main Contents of the
Dissertation
Chapter 1 The Characteristics of E.L.Doctorow'' s Postmodern
Historical Fiction
A.The Nature of Historical Fiction
B.Doctorow'' s Coverage of Almost All Periods of American
History
Chapter 2 The March:A Literary Representation of the American Civil
War
A.Inventing the Past
B.History as Myth
Chapter 3 The Waterworks:A True Picture of the Political Corruption
of Capitalism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
A.The Historical Situatior
B.From the Real World to the Artistic World
C.Anti - Industrialism
Chapter 4 Ragtime:A Literary Representation of America in the
1910s
A.The Trarformation of Pre - World War I America into Images
B.The Fragments of Time into a Series of Perpetual Presents
C.Verisimilitude Irtead of Objective Truth
D.The American Dream
Chapter 5 World'' s Fair:The Historical Writing of the Great
Depression in the
1930s and Its Indeterminacy
A.A Historical Writing about the Great Depression
B.Indeterminacy:World''s Fair as an Innovative Autobiography
Chapter 6 The Book of Daniel:The Politics of Polyphony of
McCarthyism in the 1950s
A.The Red Scare and McCarthyism
B.The Politics of Polyphony
Chapter 7 Postmodern Artistic Devices in E.L.Doctorow'' s Historical
Fiction
A.Doctorow'' s Faith in His Postmodern Historical Fiction
B.Mixture of Genres:Fiction, Autobiography, Play and Detective
Stories
C.Blending Fact and Fiction
D.History, Culture and Politics
E.Doctorow''s Narrative Art
Conclusion
Works Cited
Acknowledgements