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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Sam Adler-Bell

      1. This is spot on. For centuries novelists -- running from Sterne and Austen to Dickens to Bellow, Roth & Roupenian have had a monopoly power on parodying their family, lovers & friends. Now people have more power to strike back!https://twitter.com/SamAdlerBell/status/1413342298025435145 …

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      Sam Adler-BellVerified account @SamAdlerBell
      Used to be these dastardly novelists would put versions of us in their work and we just had to go on living our stupid lives, but now we can write our own essays about it, generate great sympathy and launch our own writing careers. That’s called communism and we have it now.
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021

      2. The 19th century version of the Cat Person scandal involved Dickens and a little person, Mrs. Seymour Hill, whose dwarfishness he mocked as "Miss Mowcher" in the serialized version of David Cooperfield (where he also implied she was a pimp).pic.twitter.com/MdGS9O7aAN

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021

      3. Mrs. Seymour Hill read David Cooperfield in serialization & objected to the cruel jokes about her appearance and the suggestion in the novel that she procured young women for aristocrats.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021

      4. Hill to Dickens, 1849: "you shew up personal deformities with insinuations that by the purest of my sex may be construed to the worst of purposes." Amazingly, Dickens took the criticism to heart & changed the characterization of Miss Mowcher in later chapters.pic.twitter.com/g8cQJGBE3a

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021

      5. Dickens of course was a popular entertainer & unusually responsive to reader complaints (he also, in answer to Jewish readers who complained, toned down the anti-Semitism a little in Oliver Twist & later created, as redress, positive Jewish characters).

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021

      6. The thing is a roman a clef is more like a caricature than it is polemic. You can answer a polemic -- how do you respond to mimicry exaggerated likeness?

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021

      7. A Saul Bellow story is instructive. The critic Hilton Kramer was big Saul Bellow booster until Bellow put him as a character in Humboldt's Gift. The likeness was, in many ways, unfair, but also (if you know what a stuffed shirt Kramer was) hilarious.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021

      8. Jospeh Epstein, who had been friends with both Bellow & Kramer but broke with Bellow, tried to respond to Humboldt's Gift with a story about the affair, but the odd things is that in the story the Kramer character seems much worse than the Bellow!

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        2. The Lepidopterologicalseptuagenarian  🇸🇴‏ @TLiterarian 8 Jul 2021
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          I love Humboldt. Which character was Kramer?

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jul 2021
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          Magnasco

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