Critics and the public immediately praised E.L. Doctorow?s Ragtime when it was first published in the summer of 1975. Since then a barrage of negative criticism has made it the author?s most controversial work. Examine the work with a host of critical essays.
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The title, E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on E.L. Doctorow, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
