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Miss Lonelyhearts Study Guide

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by Nathanael West
About 4 pages (1,301 words)
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Literary Precedents

West's works follow in the tradition of the most famous deadly serious satirist, Jonathan Swift, who wrote, besides Gulliver's Travels, "A Modest Proposal" (1729) for improving the British treatment of the Irish by having them raise the Irish children for meat.

Swift follows the tradition identified with the Latin satirist, Juvenal.

Miss Lonelyhearts, as a holy fool, is also represented in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880), A Raw Youth (1875), The Idiot (1868), and Crime and Punishment (1866); in Voltaire's Candide (1759); and in Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Gimpel the Fool" (1957).

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Miss Lonelyhearts from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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