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Doctorow's Arrogance and American Fiction Explored
E L Doctorow grew up in New York in the 1930s and 40s and shaped a fiction that binds public life to private imagination. In The Waterworks he uses McIlvaine to probe New York 1871 and a vanished reporter as Sartorius the aging physician turns mad scientist.
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New York
E.L. Doctorow
Doctorow
Hawthorne
Melville
America
Billy Bathgate
Empire State Building
Bronx
Fifth Avenue
McIlvaine
Poe
Henry James
Wales
Wordsworth
Manhattan
Sartorius
Jekyll and Hyde
Wilhelm Reich
Teally