The transformation of The decline and fall of the Roman Empire:
David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, examining its style and irony, tracing its classical and French sources, and highlighting the importance of its composition in three instalments...
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| Zusammenfassung: | David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, examining its style and irony, tracing its classical and French sources, and highlighting the importance of its composition in three instalments over a period of twenty years. Dr Womersley discusses each of these instalments in detail, plotting the work's transformation from conception to completion, and relating this to the achievements and limitations of the philosophic historiography which Gibbon inherited from Montesquieu and Hume, but finally discarded. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire emerges from this study as a work more flexible in its sympathies and surprising in its judgements than has hitherto been granted, while the magnitude of Gibbon's achievement as a stylist, historian and thinker is brought into sharper focus |
| Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511895951 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511895951 |
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| spelling | Womersley, David Verfasser aut The transformation of The decline and fall of the Roman Empire David Womersley The Transformation of The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1988 1 online resource (ix, 318 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought 1 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) Introduction -- Part I: The historiographic milieu -- Montesquieu's Considerations -- Hume -- Part II: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- Introduction -- Volume I -- 1776 -- Style -- Augustus -- Tacitus -- Narrative -- Chapters XV and XVI -- Gibbon among the philosophers -- Volumes II and III -- 1781 -- 'The more rational ignorance of the man' -- Julian the Apostate -- Ammianus Marcellinus -- 'The nice and secret springs of action' -- Volumes IV, V and VI -- 1788 -- 'A dead uniformity of abject vices' -- Structure -- 'Not a system, but a series' -- 'A keener glance' -- Realising the past -- 'The wide and various prospect of desolation' David Womersley's book investigates Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as both a work of literature and a work of history, examining its style and irony, tracing its classical and French sources, and highlighting the importance of its composition in three instalments over a period of twenty years. Dr Womersley discusses each of these instalments in detail, plotting the work's transformation from conception to completion, and relating this to the achievements and limitations of the philosophic historiography which Gibbon inherited from Montesquieu and Hume, but finally discarded. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire emerges from this study as a work more flexible in its sympathies and surprising in its judgements than has hitherto been granted, while the magnitude of Gibbon's achievement as a stylist, historian and thinker is brought into sharper focus Gibbon, Edward / 1737-1794 / History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Gibbon, Edward 1737-1794 History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (DE-588)4214611-2 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte Historiography / Great Britain / History / 18th century Großbritannien Rom Rome / History / Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. / Historiography Byzantine Empire / Historiography Gibbon, Edward 1737-1794 History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (DE-588)4214611-2 u 1\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-0-521-07096-6 Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe 978-0-521-35036-5 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511895951 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Womersley, David The transformation of The decline and fall of the Roman Empire Introduction -- Part I: The historiographic milieu -- Montesquieu's Considerations -- Hume -- Part II: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- Introduction -- Volume I -- 1776 -- Style -- Augustus -- Tacitus -- Narrative -- Chapters XV and XVI -- Gibbon among the philosophers -- Volumes II and III -- 1781 -- 'The more rational ignorance of the man' -- Julian the Apostate -- Ammianus Marcellinus -- 'The nice and secret springs of action' -- Volumes IV, V and VI -- 1788 -- 'A dead uniformity of abject vices' -- Structure -- 'Not a system, but a series' -- 'A keener glance' -- Realising the past -- 'The wide and various prospect of desolation' Gibbon, Edward / 1737-1794 / History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire Gibbon, Edward 1737-1794 History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (DE-588)4214611-2 gnd Geschichte Historiography / Great Britain / History / 18th century |
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