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The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
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The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
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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.
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