Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche Since 1650

by Regine May and Stephen Harrison

The story of Cupid and Psyche is first known through the Latin novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass by the second-century AD writer Apuleius--one of the few Latin fictions from Roman antiquity to have survived in its entirety. Apuleius in European Literature: Cupid and Psyche since 1650 examines the reception of the long two-book romantic story of Cupid and Psyche in European literature from 1650 to the present day, with some attention also devoted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192862987
• ISBN13: 9780192862983
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"