E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel Lecture I

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E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel Lecture I Ramon Saldivar Stanford University

E.L. Doctorow and American Social History Welcome to Hard Times 1975 The Old West Ragtime 1975 Turn of the Century Loon Lake 1980 Billy Bathgate 1989 The Great Depression 11/21/2018 Doctorow, Book of Daniel

“The sacrificial role of the left,” Doctorow The Trial and Execution of Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg What is a Historical Novel? Old Left/New Left Hot War/Cold War 11/21/2018 Doctorow, Book of Daniel

The Sixties: Revolutionaries and Prophets of a New Age Crisis in the contemporary American condition Old “modern” America vs. a New “postmodern” America Your parents’ generation and mine: Civil Rights Women’s Movement Radical Environmental Movement Viet Nam War Sexual Revolution 11/21/2018 Doctorow, Book of Daniel

Four Themes and Radical Movements Effacement of Objectivity and Critical Distance Dispersal (or Decentering) of the Subject Refigurations of Power Collapse of Time and Space 11/21/2018 Doctorow, Book of Daniel

Doctorow, Book of Daniel Radical Genealogy As family histories: Paul and Rochelle Isaacson Daniel and Susan Lewin As social history: Progressive American political culture As a history of discursive practice (Nietzsche, Foucault) Structures of thought 11/21/2018 Doctorow, Book of Daniel

Doctorow, Book of Daniel Master Narratives The inevitability of the historical dialectic The polymorphously perverse The “postmodern” 11/21/2018 Doctorow, Book of Daniel

Doctorow, Book of Daniel For Next time Consider: The title of the novel The epigraphs to the novel The Book of Daniel Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Allen Ginsberg, America 11/21/2018 Doctorow, Book of Daniel