More recent precedents than Shakespeare or Chaucer include such large, wordy comic novels as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759-1767).
Indeed, Ignatius' vocabulary, the author's satirical point of view, and the fact that the novel's title is borrowed from Swift, all point to eighteenth-century influences.
Toole's caricatures are reminiscent of Charles Dickens's.....
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