SOURCE: Porter, Dennis. “Aestheticism versus the Novel: The Example of Salammbô.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 4, no. 2 (winter 1971): 101-6.
In the following essay, Porter claims that Salammbô is not a well-structured novel, but rather, is at best a manifesto of aestheticism.
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