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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Description:
A full account of the reception of the 2nd-century prose fiction The Golden Ass (or Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the 3rd to the 17th centuries.