This is a critical study of The Satyricon and The Golden Ass, with special analysis on their centre pieces. Walsh defines the genre as comic romance and assesses the later influence of the two novels on the mainstream of European picaresque fiction.
| ISBN: | 9781853994500 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1998 |
| Author: | P G Walsh |
| Publisher: | Bristol Classical |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Bristol Classical Paperbacks |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |