Like Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855), Tropic of Cancer does not really have any precedents in American literature.
The travel journal and the picaresque early novel, might be vague ancestors and some of the tales of Boccaccio or Chaucer are not too distant relations.
Specific features of Miller's work do have.....
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