Jong specialized in eighteenth-century literature when she was working towards a doctoral degree at Columbia University, and the most obvious precedent for the book's structure and tone — including the bawdy humor that simultaneously exposes and defends against serious and unpleasant realities — is to be found in such books as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Among more recent novels, critics often called Fear of Flying a female version of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969) or compared it to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951).
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