Charlotte Roberts

Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History

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Produktbeschreibung

Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History offers a detailed examination of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a work of scholarship and of literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780198704836
• ISBN-10: 0198704836
• Artikelnr.: 40443134

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Roberts was born and brought up in Oxford, and studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities before completing her doctorate at Cambridge 2012. After spending two years as a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, she took up the post of Lecturer in English (1700-1830) at University College London in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Shaping Edward Gibbon
* 1: Gibbon's Characters: Identity and Personhood in the Decline and
Fall
* 2: 'On that celebrated ground': Equivalency in the First Volume of
the Decline and Fall
* 3: 'To unite the most distant revolutions': Inheritance in the Second
and Third Volumes of the Decline and Fall
* 4: 'A solemn and mournful recollection': Repetition in the Fourth,
Fifth, and Sixth Volumes of the Decline and Fall
* 5: The Marmoreal Edward Gibbon: The Memoirs and the Ruins of Rome
* 6: Conclusion: Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History