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Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History (Hardcover)
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Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History (Hardcover)
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Edward Gibbon's presentation of character in both the History of
the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and in his posthumously
published Memoirs demonstrates a prevailing interest in the values
of transcendent heroism and individual liberty, but also an
insistent awareness of the dangers these values pose to coherence
and narrative order. In this study, Charlotte Roberts demonstrates
how these dynamics also inform the 'character' of the Decline and
Fall: in which ironic difference confronts enervating uniformity;
oddity counters specious lucidity; and revision combats repetition.
Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History explores the Decline and
Fall as a work of scholarship and of literature, tracing both its
expansive outline and its expressive details. A close examination
of each of the three instalments of Gibbon's history reveals an
intimate relationship between the style of Gibbon's narrative and
the overall shape of his historiographical composition. The
constant interplay between style and substance, or between the
particular details of composition and the larger patterns of
argument and narrative, informs every aspect of Gibbon's work: from
his reception of established and innovative historiographical
conventions to the expression of his narrative voice. Through a
combination of close reading and larger literary and scholarly
analysis, Charlotte Roberts conveys a sense of the Decline and Fall
as a work more complex and conflicted, in its tone and structure,
than has been appreciated by previous scholars, without losing
sight of the grand contours of Gibbon's superlative achievement.
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