SOURCE: Jay, Bruce Louis. “Anti-History and the Method of Salammbô.” Romantic Review 63, no. 1 (February 1972): 20-33.
In the following essay, Jay maintains that Salammbô, employs little of the typical mechanics of historical fiction and that it presents exoticism and ritual action instead of theme, motivation, or historical veracity.
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