I. Introduction: E. L. Doctorow Reconsidered, Michael Wutz and Julian Murphet; II. Generic Border Crossings; 1. ‘Doctorow and the Halbbildungsroman’,Tamlyn Avery; 2. ‘‘The Dark Horrors of Consciousness’: Doctorow and the Gothic’, Stephen Arch; 3. ‘E. L. Doctorow as Short Story Writer’, Mark Azzopardi; III. Politics, Allegory, Difference; 4. ‘Submerged Politics and the Artist’, Nicholas Murgatroyd; 5. ‘Redeeming the National Ideal: Revisiting E. L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel and Its Political Implications’, Jieun Kwon; 6. ‘‘A Rearrangement of Molecules’: On Doctorow’s Perpetual Motion Machines’, Julian Murphet; 7. ‘Cocks, Corsets, Clocks: E. L. Doctorow and the Tunnel of Love’, Alexander Howard; IV. Narrative, Media, and Cognition—The Case of City of God; 8. ‘Literary Neutrinos and the Hot Dark Matters of Doctorow’s City of God’, Nathan Frank; 9. ‘City of God / City of Bits: Signs, Signals, Noise’, Michael Wutz; V. Tributes; 10. ‘E. L. Doctorow, Inhabiting History’, Jennifer Egan
11. ‘The Polyphonic Past’, Don DeLillo; 12. ‘A Half Century of Friendship and Literary Greatness’, Victor Navasky; Index.