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The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon (Hardcover)
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The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2002:03
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The purpose of this study is to assess the importance of
Switzerland in the life and writings of Edward Gibbon. Whereas the
choice of Lausanne as a place of exile for Gibbon to undo his
youthful conversion to Roman Catholicism was largely accidental,
the society and intellectual resources of that city, perched on its
hills overlooking the shores of Lake Geneva, proved to be of
lasting influence for the rest of his life. During his period of
exile, he began to write in French his first work to be published,
the Essai sur l'etude de la litterature, and the subject of
Switzerland was his preferred choice of research until his Grand
Tour, in which he renewed his residence in Lausanne for a further
eleven months, stimulated the idea of writing a history of Rome.
Eventually he decided to retire to Lausanne at the end of his
parliamentary career to finish the last three volumes of The
Decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Brian Norman shows that the
liberalism of Gibbon's political philosophy in his criticism of
Lausanne's subjection to the aristocratic rule of Berne surprised
the patriots of the new canton of Vaud when his Letter on the
Government of Berne, which is here established as a youthful work
of the late 1750s, was posthumously published at the end of the
eighteenth century. The author then proceeds to examine Gibbon's
other early writings relating to Switzerland, his letters and
journals, The Decline and fall of the Roman Empire and his Memoirs
in order to show the abiding effect of the society, language,
history, constitution and military organisation of Switzerland on
his beliefs and assumptions.
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